colum (plural colums)

1. Alternative form of coolung.

colum

1. Misspelling of column.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoː.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.lum]

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 (“to shake, brandish”) conceivable.^[1]

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• cōlō

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: colo

Variant form of cōlon, from κῶλον (kôlon).

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

1. alternative form of cōlon

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “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, 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

colum

1. dative plural of col

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