columba

== Latin == === 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): [kɔˈɫʊm.ba] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈlum.ba] === Noun === columba f (genitive columbae, masculine columbus); first declension dove, pigeon a term of endearment ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === See also === palumbus === 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, 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 == Romansh == === Etymology === From Latin columba. === Noun === columba f (plural columbas) dove, pigeon