colum

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== colum (plural colums) Alternative form of coolung. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== colum Misspelling of column. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkoː.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.lum] === Etymology 1 === Perhaps related to quālus/quālum (“wicker basket”). No widely agreeable etymology has been suggested for either word, but compare Sanskrit चालन (cālana, “sieve, strainer”). De Vaan finds a connection with the root of quatio (“to shake, brandish”) conceivable. ==== Noun ==== cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension colander, strainer (poetic) a wicker basket for catching fish ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Derived terms ===== cōlō ===== Descendants ===== Italo-Romance: Italian: colo === Etymology 2 === Variant form of cōlon, from κῶλον (kôlon). ==== Noun ==== cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension alternative form of cōlon ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "colum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “colum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “colum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “colum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin == Old English == === Noun === colum dative plural of col