columba

See also: Columba, and columbă

Latin

columba (a dove)

Alternative forms

colonbu (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”). (Aristophanes [Birds, 304] and others use the word κολυμβίς (kolumbís, “diver, sea-bird”).)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.ba/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊmbä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.ba/, [koˈlumbä]

Noun

columba f (genitive columbae); first declension (masculine columbus)

dove, pigeon (sacred bird of Venus)
a term of endearment

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	columba	columbae
genitive	columbae	columbārum
dative	columbae	columbīs
accusative	columbam	columbās
ablative	columbā	columbīs
vocative	columba	columbae

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: coloma
Galician: comba
Italian: colomba
Occitan: colomba
Romanian: columbă
Romansch: columba
Sicilian: culumma
→ English: Columba
→ French: Colombe
→ Old Irish: columb, colum
- Middle Irish: colum
  - Irish: colm
  - Manx: colum
  - Scottish Gaelic: calum
→ Spanish: Columba
→ Translingual: Columba
→ Welsh: colomen

References

“columba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“columba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
columba 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)
columba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“columba”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin columba.

Noun

columba f (plural columbas)

dove, pigeon