columbus

== Latin == === Etymology === Of Ancient Greek origin as the feminine form columba. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈɫʊm.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈlum.bus] === Noun === columbus m (genitive columbī, feminine columba); second declension A male dove or cock pigeon ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== palumbes, palumbis, palumbus ==== Related terms ==== columba columbarius columbīnus ==== Descendants ==== Aromanian: culumbu Catalan: colom Friulian: colomb Italian: colombo Occitan: colomb Old French: colomb, coulon Norman: couloumb Venetan: cołonbo → Old Irish: columb, columMiddle Irish: columIrish: colmManx: columScottish Gaelic: calum →? Proto-Slavic: *golǫbь (“dove”) (see there for further descendants) === References === “columbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “columbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "columbus", 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) “columbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.