different between columbus vs columba

Latin

Etymology

According to Lewis and Short, cognate with calvus, and Ancient Greek ???????? (kólumbos, “a diver”); compare, in Slavic languages with Russian ?????? (gólub’), ????? (gólyj), Czech holub, holý.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?lum.bus/, [k?????mb?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?lum.bus/, [k??lumbus]

Noun

columbus m (genitive columb?, feminine columba); second declension

1. A male dove or cock-pigeon

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• palumbes, palumbis, palumbus

Related terms

• columba
• columbarius
• columb?nus

Descendants

• Aromanian: culumbu
• Catalan: colom
• Friulian: colomb
• Italian: colombo
• Occitan: colomb
• Old French: colomb, coulon
  • Norman: couloumb
• Venetian: co?onbo
• ? Old Irish: columb
  • Middle Irish: colum
    • Irish: colm
    • Manx: colum
    • Scottish Gaelic: calum

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• columbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Latin

Alternative forms

• colonbu (Vulgar)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (kólumbos, “a diver”), from ???????? (kolumbá?, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”). (Aristophanes [Birds, 304] and others use the word ???????? (kolumbís, “diver, sea-bird”))

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?lum.ba/, [k?????mbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?lum.ba/, [k??lumb?]

Noun

columba f (genitive columbae); first declension (masculine columbus)

1. dove, pigeon (sacred bird of Venus)
2. a term of endearment

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• columb?rius
• columb?nus
• columbus

See also

• palumbus

Descendants

• Catalan: coloma
• Italian: colomba
• Occitan: colomba
• Romanian: columb?
• Romansch: columba
• Sicilian: culumma
• ? English: Columba
• ? French: Colombe
• ? Spanish: Columba
• ? Translingual: Columba
• ? Welsh: colomen

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin columba.

Noun

columba f (plural columbas)

1. dove, pigeon