columna

See also: columnă

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

1. column

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈlum.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koˈlum.na]

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

1. column
2. (chess) file

Further reading

• “columna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

1. column

Derived terms

• columna vertebral

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Interlingua

Noun

columna (plural columnas)

1. column

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Latin

Alternative forms

• colum., col. (column as in a book)

Etymology

Originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.na/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊmnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.na/, [koˈlumnä]

Noun

columna f (genitive columnae); first declension

1. column, pillar
2. waterspout
3. (New Latin) column as in a book

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	columna	columnae
Genitive	columnae	columnārum
Dative	columnae	columnīs
Accusative	columnam	columnās
Ablative	columnā	columnīs
Vocative	columna	columnae

Derived terms

• columnāris
• columnārius
• columnātiō

• columnātus
• columnifer

Related terms

• columnārium

Descendants

• Aromanian: culoanã
• Catalan: columna
• Dalmatian: chilauna
• English: column
• French: colonne, colombe
• Galician: columna

• Irish: colún
• Italian: colonna
• Portuguese: coluna
• Romanian: coloană, columnă, corună
• Russian: коло́нна (kolónna)
• Spanish: columna, coluna, cureña

See also

• (column as in a book): pagina (pag., p.)

References

• “columna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “columna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• columna 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)
• columna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “columna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “columna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Noun

columna f (plural s)

1. Obsolete spelling of coluna.

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• coluna (uncommon, archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna (see also coluna (a semi-learned variant), curueña and cureña).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlumna/ [koˈlũm.na]

• Audio (La Paz, Bolivia):

  (file)

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

1. (architecture) A column; a circular support.
2. (chess) file

Derived terms

• columna vertebral

Related terms

• columnata