columnar

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

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌmnɚ/

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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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈɫʊm.nar]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈlum.nar]

columnar n (genitive columnāris); third declension

1. marble quarry

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

• “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.

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

columnar m or f (masculine and feminine plural columnares)

1. columnar

• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “columnar”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]