coluna

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: co‧lu‧na === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Latin columna, a collateral form of columen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. ==== Alternative forms ==== columna (pre-reform spelling) ==== Noun ==== coluna f (plural colunas) column (a vertical line of entries in a table) (architecture) column; pillar Synonym: pilar (anatomy) spine; backbone Synonyms: coluna vertebral, costas, espinha, espinha dorsal, espinhaço, dorso (military) a military column (a long body of troops) (typography) a text column (body of text meant to be read line by line) (journalism) a periodical's column (a recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece) (electronics) loudspeaker (electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound) Synonyms: altifalante, alto-falante (chess) file ===== Meronyms ===== (pillar): plinto, fuste, capitel ===== Derived terms ===== quinta coluna ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== coluna inflection of colunar: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “coluna”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “coluna”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Semi-learned term from Latin columna. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /koˈluna/ [koˈlu.na] Rhymes: -una Syllabification: co‧lu‧na === Noun === coluna f (plural colunas) rare form of columna === Further reading === “coluna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025