columnella

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin columnella. By surface analysis, column +‎ Latin -ella. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛlə === Noun === columnella (plural columnellae) (architecture) A small column Alternative form of columella. == Latin == === Etymology === Alternative form of columella (from columen/columna + -lus with assimilation of /nl/ to /ll/), reanalyzed as columna +‎ -ella. === Noun === columnella f (genitive columnellae); first declension alternative form of columella ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “columnella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “columnella”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.