different between columbus vs columbia

columbus

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

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

columbus From the web:

what columbus discovered
what columbus day
what columbus really did
what columbus sailed according to a rhyme
what columbus school district am i in
what columbus did
what columbus found in america
what columbus saw in 1492

columbia

columbia From the web:

what columbia university is known for
what columbia university looks for
what columbia means
what columbian exchange
what columbia gorge trails are open
what colombia is known for
what's columbia zip code
colombia currency

Send