columella

From Latin columella (“small column”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒləˈmɛlə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlə

columella (plural columellas or columellae)

1. (biology) Any of various small structures in plants or animals that are columnar in shape.
2. (anatomy) The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils.
3. (comparative anatomy) In birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the small bone which carries vibration from the tympanum to the inner ear.
4. (malacology) In gastropods, the structure that extends down the middle of the whorls of the shell.
5. (coral science) The structure at the center of the calyx where the septa join together.
6. (mycology) The central sterile portion of the sporangium in various fungi.
7. (palynology) A rod-shaped reinforcing element of the sexine layer of a pollen grain.

• columella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “columella”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

From Latin columella.

columella f (plural columelle)

1. (biology, anatomy, zoology) columella, modiolus
2. (anatomy) stapes, stirrup bone, stirrup

• (columella bone): modiolo
• (stirrup bone): staffa

• columnella

From columna +‎ -la or columen +‎ -la.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔ.ɫʊˈmɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.luˈmɛl.la]

columella f (genitive columellae); first declension

1. diminutive of columna: a small column or pillar

First-declension noun.

• → English: columella
• → French: coulemelle, columelle
• → Italian: columella
• → Portuguese: columela
• → Translingual: Columella (syn. of Biarritzina)

• “columella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “columella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "columella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “columella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• columella in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016