columnar

English

Etymology

From Latin columnāris. By surface analysis, column +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌmnɚ/

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Adjective

columnar (not comparable)

1. Having the shape of a column.
2. Constructed with columns.
3. (microanatomy) Of or pertaining to an epithelium with has cells taller than they are wide (column-shaped).

   Coordinate term: cuboidal

   • 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :

     where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked

Derived terms

• bicolumnar
• circumcolumnar
• columnarity
• columnarize
• columnarly
• extracolumnar
• half columnar
• intercolumnar
• intracolumnar
• microcolumnar
• multicolumnar
• nanocolumnar
• noncolumnar
• pseudocolumnar
• semicolumnar
• squamocolumnar
• stratified columnar epithelium
• subcolumnar
• supercolumnar
• supracolumnar
• transcolumnar
• tricolumnar

Translations

Having the shape of a column

• French: colonnaire (fr)
• German: säulenförmig (de)
• Greek: κιονοειδής (el) (kionoeidís)

  Ancient: κιονοειδής (kionoeidḗs)

• Hungarian: oszlopos (hu)
• Swedish: pelarformig
• Welsh: colofnog, pilerog

Constructed with column

Latin

Etymology

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Noun

cŏlumnār n (genitive cŏlumnāris); third declension

1. marble quarry

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cŏlumnār	cŏlumnārēs
genitive	cŏlumnāris	cŏlumnārum
dative	cŏlumnārī	cŏlumnāribus
accusative	cŏlumnārem	cŏlumnārēs
ablative	cŏlumnāre	cŏlumnāribus
vocative	cŏlumnār	cŏlumnārēs

References

• “columnar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• columnar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Adjective

columnar m or f (masculine and feminine plural columnares)

1. columnar