Translation
column, pillar
Word origin
From Latin columna, a pillar, related to columen, 'a summit, a top'. The marching sense and the newspaper sense both arrived later by the same metaphor of a tall narrow thing.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- columna
- English cognates
- column, colonnade, colonel
Examples
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Eight white columns hold up the roof of the temple.
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The soldiers marched in a long column through the village.
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He read the news in the left-hand column of the newspaper.
carries all three English senses at once: the stone pillar, the marching column, and the strip of text down a page. A table has and , columns and rows.
Mind the neighbourhood, because Esperanto packs four unrelated words into five letters here. Kolo is a neck. Kolombo is a dove. is a colony and is a colonel, both real words, neither built from . Nothing connects them except the accident that Latin liked the letters c-o-l. The one that actually catches people out is the accusative: is kolo with -n on it, so if you are eliding the -o of in verse, write ' with the apostrophe and let the reader see which word you meant.
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