columbus

See also: Columbus

Latin

Etymology

According to Lewis and Short, cognate with calvus, and Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”); compare, in Slavic languages with Russian голубь (gólub’), голый (gólyj), Czech holub, holý.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.bus/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊmbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.bus/, [koˈlumbus]

Noun

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

1. A male dove or cock-pigeon

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	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
• Venetian: cołonbo
• → Old Irish: columb, colum
  • Middle Irish: colum
    • Irish: colm
    • Manx: colum
    • Scottish Gaelic: calum

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’s 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.