palumbus

Latin

Alternative forms

• palumbēs

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlum.bus/, [päˈɫ̪ʊmbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈlum.bus/, [päˈlumbus]

Noun

palumbus m (genitive palumbī); second declension

1. Alternative form of palumbēs ("wood pigeon").

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palumbus	palumbī
Genitive	palumbī	palumbōrum
Dative	palumbō	palumbīs
Accusative	palumbum	palumbōs
Ablative	palumbō	palumbīs
Vocative	palumbe	palumbī

See also

• columbus

Descendants

• Albanian: pëllumb
• Aragonese: palomo, paloma
• Aromanian: pãrumbu, purumbu
• Asturian: palombu
• Catalan: paloma
• Extremaduran: palomu, paloma
• French: palombe
• Galician: pombo, pomba
• Italian: palombo, palomba

• Leonese: palomba
• Mirandese: palomba
• Occitan: palomba, paloma
• Old Galician-Portuguese: paomba
• Portuguese: pombo, pomba
• Romanian: porumb, porumbel
• Sicilian: palumma
• Spanish: paloma

References

• “palumbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palumbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.