columna

See also: columnă

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlumna/ [koˈlũm.na]
• Rhymes: -umna
• Syllabification: co‧lum‧na

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

1. column

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [kuˈlum.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [koˈlum.na]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

1. column
2. (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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin columen

Latin columnalbor.

Galician columna

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈluŋna/ [koˈluŋ.nɐ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uŋna
• Hyphenation: co‧lum‧na

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

1. column

Derived terms

• columna vertebral

Interlingua

Noun

columna (plural columnas)

1. column

Latin

Alternative forms

• colum., col. (column as in a book)

Etymology

From columen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈɫʊm.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈlum.na]

Noun

columna f (genitive columnae); first declension

1. column, pillar
2. waterspout
3. (New Latin) column as in a book

   Synonym: pāgina

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	columna	columnae
genitive	columnae	columnārum
dative	columnae	columnīs
accusative	columnam	columnās
ablative	columnā	columnīs
vocative	columna	columnae

Derived terms

• columnāris
• columnārium
• columnārius
• columnātiō
• columnātus
• columnifer

Related terms

• columnārium

Descendants

Descendants

• Aromanian: culoanã
• Asturian: cureña, → coluna, → columna
• → Catalan: columna
• Dalmatian: chilauna
• → Galician: columna
• → Old Irish: columan
  • Irish: colún
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: clåṅna
  • 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
  • Middle French: colomne
    • French: colonne, colomne (obsolete)
      • → Dutch: colonne
      • → German: Kolonne
      • → Turkish: kolon
• 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.)

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, 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)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of coluna

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koˈlumna]

Noun

columna f

1. 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^(key): /koˈlumna/ [koˈlũm.na]

• Audio (Bolivia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -umna
• Syllabification: co‧lum‧na

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

1. (architecture) a column; a circular support
2. (chess) file

   Antonym: fila

Derived terms

• columna vertebral
• Columnas de Hércules
• quinta columna

Related terms

• columnario
• columnata

Further reading

• “columna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025