columnar

English

Etymology

From Latin columnāris.[1] By surface analysis, column +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈlʌm.nəɹ/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adjective

columnar (not comparable)

  1. Having the shape of a column.
  2. Constructed with columns.
  3. (microanatomy) Of or pertaining to an epithelium with has cells taller than they are wide (column-shaped).
    Coordinate term: cuboidal
    • 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :
      where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ^ “columnar, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Etymology

Substantivation of apocopated columnāre, nominative neuter singular of columnāris (“columnar”) or directly from columna +‎ -ar. Columns were mostly made of marble, whence the name.

Pronunciation

Noun

columnar n (genitive columnāris); third declension

  1. marble quarry

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

singular plural
nominative columnar columnāria
genitive columnāris columnārium
dative columnārī columnāribus
accusative columnar columnāria
ablative columnārī columnāribus
vocative columnar columnāria

References

  • “columnar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “columnar”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kolumˈnaɾ/ [ko.lũmˈnaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: co‧lum‧nar

Adjective

columnar m or f (masculine and feminine plural columnares)

  1. columnar

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