columen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Doublet of culmen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.men/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ʊmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.men/, [ˈkɔːlumen]

Noun

columen n (genitive columinis); third declension

1. pillar, column
2. peak, summit, zenith

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	columen	columina
Genitive	columinis	columinum
Dative	columinī	columinibus
Accusative	columen	columina
Ablative	columine	columinibus
Vocative	columen	columina

Derived terms

• columna

Related terms

• *cellō
• collis
• culmen

Descendants

• → Welsh: colfen

References

• “columen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “columen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• columen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “columen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “columen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin