Asturian

Noun

columna f ‎(plural columnes)

1. column

Catalan

Etymology

Latin columna

Noun

columna f ‎(plural columnes)

1. column
2. (chess) file

Galician

Etymology

Latin columna

Pronunciation

Noun

columna f ‎(plural columnas)

1. column

Derived terms

• columna vertebral

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.na/

Etymology

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

Noun

columna f ‎(genitive columnae); first declension

1. column, pillar
2. waterspout

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

Related terms

• columnārium

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “columna”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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

Portuguese

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

1. Obsolete spelling of coluna

Spanish

Alternative forms

• coluna (uncommon, archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna (see also coluna, curueña and cureña).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlumna/

Noun

columna f ‎(plural columnas)

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

Related terms

• columnata