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See also: Colum

English

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Noun

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colum (plural colums)

  1. Alternative form of coolung

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Perhaps related to quālus/quālum (wicker basket). No widely agreeable etymology has been suggested for either word, but compare Sanskrit चालन (cālana, sieve, strainer). De Vaan finds a connection with the root of quatio (I shake, brandish) conceivable.[1]

Noun

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cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

  1. colander, strainer
  2. (poetic) a wicker basket for catching fish
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cōlum cōla
genitive cōlī cōlōrum
dative cōlō cōlīs
accusative cōlum cōla
ablative cōlō cōlīs
vocative cōlum cōla
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Variant form of cōlon, from κῶλον (kôlon).

Noun

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cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of cōlon
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

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  • colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • colum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • 6 per cent: usurae semissium (Colum.)
  • colum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “qualus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 504

Old English

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Noun

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colum

  1. dative plural of col