colum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.lum/

Perhaps related to quālus/quālum (“wicker basket”). No widely agreeable etymology has been suggested for either word.

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

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

Second declension.

• cōlō

Variant form of cōlon, from κῶλον (kôlon).

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

1. Alternative form of cōlon

Second declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• colum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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