Translingual

Columba oenas

Etymology

From Latin columba ‎(“dove, pigeon”).

Proper noun

Columba f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Columbidae – doves and pigeons.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Columbiformes - order; Columbidae - family; Columbinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Columba oenas - type species; Columba albitorques, Columba argentina, Columba arquatrix, Columba elphinstonii, Columba guinea, Columba hodgsonii, Columba iriditorques, Columba janthina, Columba larvata, Columba leucomela, Columba leuconota, Columba malherbii, Columba oliviae, Columba pallidiceps, Columba palumboides, Columba pollenii, Columba pulchricollis, Columba punicea, Columba sjostedti, Columba thomensis, Columba torringtoniae, Columba trocaz, Columba vitiensis - other species

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

English

Proper noun

Columba

1. Saint Columba of Iona, one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.
2. Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba.
3. (astronomy) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.

Derived terms

• Columbae

Related terms

Translations

Spanish

Proper noun

Columba ?

1. (astronomy) Columba (constellation)

Latin

columba (a dove)

Noun

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

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

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• columbārius
• columbīnus
• columbus

Descendants

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “columba”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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