columbine

See also: Columbine

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləmbaɪn/
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Etymology 1

From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.

Noun

columbine (plural columbines)

Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.

Derived terms

common columbine
eastern columbine

Translations

any plant of the genus Aquilegia

Albanian: kanilqyqe
Armenian: ջրընկալ (hy) (ǰrənkal)
Basque: kuku-belarra
Belarusian: вадазбо́р (vadazbór), о́рлик (órlik)
Breton: beskenn-an-Itron-Varia
Bulgarian: кандилка (bg) (kandilka)
Catalan: corniol m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 耬斗菜／耧斗菜 (zh) (lóudǒucài)
Czech: orlíček (cs)
Danish: akeleje
Dutch: akelei (nl)
Esperanto: akvilegio
Estonian: kurekell
Faroese: akkuleya
Finnish: akileija (fi)
French: ancolie (fr) f
Galician: arreitó (gl) m, paxariños (gl) m pl
Georgian: წყალიკრეფია (c̣q̇aliḳrepia)
German: Akelei (de) f
Greek: ακουιλέγκια (akouilégkia)
Hungarian: harangláb (hu), sasfű
Icelandic: vatnsberi (is), vatnsberar pl
Ido: aquilegio (io)
Irish: colaimbín
Italian: colombina (it) f, aquilegia (it)
Japanese: 苧環 (odamaki), オダマキ (odamaki)
Kashubian: kukùlëca
Korean: 매발톱꽃 (maebaltopkkot)
Latin: aquilegia
Latvian: ozolīte
Lithuanian: sinavadas
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: boerenklokjen (Veluws), klokjen (Veluws), akkelei(e) (Veluws), zwärfbloeme (Veluws), klokkebloeme (Drents)
Macedonian: кандилка (kandilka)
Manx: lus y chalmane, lus yn ushtey vio
Occitan: corniol
Polish: orlik (pl)
Portuguese: aquilégia (pt)
Romanian: căldărușă (ro) f
Russian: водосбо́р (ru) (vodosbór)
Saterland Frisian: klokkebloume
Scottish Gaelic: lus a' chlamain
Serbo-Croatian: kandilka (sh), pakujac (sh)
Slovak: orlíček
Slovene: orlica (sl)
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: akelaja
Spanish: colombina (es) f, aguileña (es)
Swedish: akleja (sv)
Turkish: hasekiküpesi (tr)
Ukrainian: водозбі́р (vodozbír)
Welsh: troed-y-golomen

Etymology 2

From Middle English columbyne, from Old French columbin (French colombin), from Latin columbinus, from columba (“dove, pigeon”).

Adjective

columbine (comparative more columbine, superlative most columbine)

(archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
- late 1500s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale:
  Com forþ now, wiþ þyne eyen columbyn! / How fairer been þy brestes þan is wyn!
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554:
  It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.

Translations

pertaining to doves or pigeons

Bulgarian: гълъбов (gǎlǎbov)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鴿的／鸽的, 鸽的 (gē de), 鴿似的／鸽似的, 鸽似的 (gē shìde), 鴿色的／鸽色的, 鸽色的 (gē sè de)
Esperanto: kolomba
Finnish: kyyhkys- (fi)
German: (quasi-prefix, e.g. Taubenblume) Tauben (de), (quasi-prefix, e.g. Tauben-Skabiose) Tauben-
Russian: голуби́ный (ru) (golubínyj)
Volapük: pijunik