columen

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *kelamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-men-, from *kelH- (“to rise, be tall”). Doublet of culmen. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔ.ɫʊ.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.lu.men] === Noun === columen n (genitive columinis); third declension pillar, column peak, summit, zenith ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== columna ==== Related terms ==== *cellō collis culmen ==== Descendants ==== → Welsh: colfen === References === === Further reading === “columen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “columen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “columen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “columen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “columen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin