# columna
## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈlumna/ [koˈlũm.na]
* Rhymes: -umna
* Syllabification: co‧lum‧na

### Noun

columna f (plural columnes)
* column

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kuˈlum.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [koˈlum.na]

### Noun

columna f (plural columnes)
* column
* (chess) file

#### Derived terms

* columna vertebral
* columnar
* columnes d'Hèrcules
* columneta
* columnista

#### Related terms

* columnata
* colúmnea

### Further reading

* “columna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈluŋna/ [koˈluŋ.nɐ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uŋna
* Hyphenation: co‧lum‧na

### Noun

columna f (plural columnas)
* column

#### Derived terms

* columna vertebral

## Interlingua
### Noun

columna (plural columnas)
* column

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* colum., col. (column as in a book)

### Etymology

Originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /koˈlum.na/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊmnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /koˈlum.na/, [koˈlumnä]

### Noun

columna f (genitive columnae); first declension
* column, pillar
* waterspout
* (New Latin) column as in a book
    Synonym: pāgina

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* columnāris
* columnārium
* columnārius
* columnātiō
* columnātus
* columnifer

#### Related terms

* columnārium

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: culoanã
* → Catalan: columna
* Dalmatian: chilauna
* → Galician: columna
* → Old Irish: columan
** Irish: colún
* Padanian:
** Romagnol: clôna, culôna
* Italian: colonna
** → Greek: κολόνα (kolóna)
** → Lithuanian: kolona
** → Romanian: coloană
** → Russian: коло́нна (kolónna)
** → Serbo-Croatian: kolona
* → Old French: columne
** → Middle English: columpne, colompne, columne, columpe
*** English: column
*** Scots: column
** French: colonne
* Old French: colombe
** French: colombe
* Portuguese: coluna
* Romanian: corună, → columnă
* Sicilian: culunna, culonna (recent variant)
* Spanish: cureña, → coluna, → columna
* → Proto-Brythonic: *koloβ̃n
** Middle Welsh: colouen
*** Welsh: colofn, colon

### See also

* (column as in a book): pagina (pag., p.)

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “columen, -inis (> Derivatives: > columna)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 127

### Further reading

* “columna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “columna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "columna", 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)
* columna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “columna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “columna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Portuguese
### Noun

columna f (plural columnas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of coluna.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [koˈlumna]

### Noun

columna f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of columnă

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* coluna (uncommon, archaic)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna. Doublet of coluna (a semi-learned variant) and possibly curueña and cureña.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈlumna/ [koˈlũm.na]
* Audio (La Paz, Bolivia):(file)
* Rhymes: -umna
* Syllabification: co‧lum‧na

### Noun

columna f (plural columnas)
* (architecture) a column; a circular support
* (chess) file

#### Derived terms

* columna vertebral
* Columnas de Hércules
* quinta columna

#### Related terms

* columnario
* columnata

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “columna”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “columna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10