colum

See also: Colum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.lum/, [ˈkoːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lum/, [ˈkɔːlum]

Etymology 1

Perhaps related to quālus/quālum (“wicker basket”). No widely agreeable etymology has been suggested for either word, but compare Sanskrit चालन (cālana, “sieve, strainer”). De Vaan finds a connection with the root of quatio (“I shake, brandish”) conceivable.

Noun

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

1. colander, strainer
2. (poetic) a wicker basket for catching fish

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōlum	cōla
Genitive	cōlī	cōlōrum
Dative	cōlō	cōlīs
Accusative	cōlum	cōla
Ablative	cōlō	cōlīs
Vocative	cōlum	cōla

Derived terms

• cōlō

Etymology 2

Variant form of cōlon, from κῶλον (kôlon).

Noun

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

1. Alternative form of cōlon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōlum	cōla
Genitive	cōlī	cōlōrum
Dative	cōlō	cōlīs
Accusative	cōlum	cōla
Ablative	cōlō	cōlīs
Vocative	cōlum	cōla

References

• “colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• colum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• colum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 6 per cent: usurae semissium (Colum.)
    
• “colum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “colum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old English

Noun

colum

1. dative plural of col