columbus

See also: Columbus

Latin

Etymology

Of Ancient Greek origin as the feminine form columba.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈɫʊm.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈlum.bus]

Noun

columbus m (genitive columbī, feminine columba); second declension

1. A male dove or cock pigeon

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	columbus	columbī
genitive	columbī	columbōrum
dative	columbō	columbīs
accusative	columbum	columbōs
ablative	columbō	columbīs
vocative	columbe	columbī

Synonyms

• palumbes, palumbis, palumbus

Related terms

• columba
• columbarius
• columbīnus

Descendants

• Aromanian: culumbu
• Catalan: colom
• Friulian: colomb
• Italian: colombo
• Occitan: colomb
• Old French: colomb, coulon
  • Norman: couloumb
• Venetan: cołonbo
• → Old Irish: columb, colum
  • Middle Irish: colum
    • Irish: colm
    • Manx: colum
    • Scottish Gaelic: calum
• → Proto-Slavic: *golǫbь (“dove”) (see there for further descendants)

References

• “columbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “columbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "columbus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “columbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.