coluna

• columna (obsolete)

From Latin columna, from columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“going around”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ˈlu.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: co‧lu‧na

coluna f (plural colunas)

1. (architecture) column; pillar
2. (anatomy) spine; backbone
3. (military) a military column (a long body of troops)
4. (typography) a text column (body of text meant to be read line by line)
5. (journalism) a periodical's column (a recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece)
6. (electronics) loudspeaker (electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound)
7. (chess) file

• (pillar): pilar
• (backbone): coluna vertebral, costas, espinha, espinha dorsal, espinhaço, dorso
• (loudspeaker): altifalante, alto-falante

• (pillar): plinto, fuste, capitel

• colunável
• quinta coluna

Semi-learned term from Latin columna.

coluna f (plural colunas)

1. Rare form of columna.

• “coluna” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.