Columba Definition

kə-lŭmbə
noun
A S constellation near Canis Major.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • dove
  • genus Columba
pronoun

(astronomy) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove. It was introduced by Augustin Royer in 1679, as a split from the constellation Canis Major.

Wiktionary

St. Columba of Iona (Old Irish Columb Cille, meaning "Dove of the church"); one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.

Wiktionary

Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba.

Wiktionary

Origin of Columba

  • From Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin columba dove

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Columba Sentence Examples

  • The existing genera include Anas, Aquila, Bubo, Columba, Cypselus, Lanius, Picus, Phalacrocorax, Sula, &c. Very interesting is the fact that Serpentarius, Psittacus and Trogon are amongst this list of birds, which are now restricted to the tropics.

  • Madeira has also its peculiar golden-crested wren (Regulus maderensis), and its peculiar pigeon (Columba trocaz), while two allied forms of the latter (C. laurivora and C. bollii) are found only in the Canaries.

  • They are represented as endeavouring to prevent the progress of St Patrick and St Columba by raising clouds and mist.

  • The word drill is always used to render the Latin magus, and in one passage St Columba speaks of Christ as his Druid.

  • So it was with Celtic saints, and Adamnan, in his life of St Columba, i.

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