Columba

See also: columba and columbă

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): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Columbimorphae – clade; 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 livia, 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

• Columba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Columba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Columba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

English

Etymology

From Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”). The dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit in Christianity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌm.bə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒ.ləm.bə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.ləm.bə/
• Rhymes: -ʌmbə
• Hyphenation: Co‧lum‧ba

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

• Calum
• Colm
• Columb
• Columbia
• Columbus
• Malcolm

Translations

St. Columba

• Breton: Koulm (br) m
• Catalan: Coloma (ca) m
• Galician: Comba (gl) f
• Icelandic: Kólumkilli m
• Irish: Colm Cille
• Japanese: コルンバ (Korunba)
• Manx: Colum Keeilley m
• Marathi: कोलंबा (kolambā)
• Occitan: Colomba m, Coloma m
• Old Irish: Columb Cille
• Scottish Gaelic: Calum Cille

constellation

• Arabic: الْحَمَامة (al-ḥamāma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天鴿座 / 天鸽座 (zh) (Tiāngēzuò)

• Finnish: Kyyhkynen (fi)
• French: Colombe (fr) f
• Galician: Pomba (gl)
• German: Taube (de) f
• Greek: Περιστερά (el) f (Peristerá)
• Irish: an Colm m
• Japanese: 鳩座 (ja) (はとざ, Hatoza), はと座 (ja) (hato za)
• Kazakh: Көгершін (Kögerşın)
• Korean: 비둘기자리 (Bidulgijari)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Duuv (nds) f

• Malay: Merpati
• Polish: Gołąb (pl) m
• Russian: Голубь (ru) (Golubʹ)
• Spanish: Columba

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlumba/ [koˈlũm.ba]
• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: Co‧lum‧ba

Proper noun

Columba ?

1. (astronomy) Columba (constellation)