columba

From Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”). (Aristophanes [Birds, 304] and others use the word κολυμβίς (kolumbís, “diver, sea-bird”))

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.ba/, [kɔˈɫʊm.ba]

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

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

First declension.

• columbārius
• columbīnus
• columbus

• palumbus

• 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)
• columba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• columba in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Latin columba.

columba f (plural columbas)

1. dove, pigeon