kolombo

From Italian colomba, colombo, French colombe, both from Latin columba, from Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos). Cognate with Russian го́лубь (gólubʹ), Polish gołąb.

• IPA^(key): [koˈlombo]
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• Rhymes: -ombo
• Hyphenation: ko‧lom‧bo

kolombo (accusative singular kolombon, plural kolomboj, accusative plural kolombojn)

1. pigeon, dove (bird of the genus Columba)

• kolombedo (“member of family Columbidae”)

• virkolombo (“cock pigeon (male pigeon), cock dove (male dove)”)
• kolombido (“squab (young pigeon or dove)”)
• kolombino (“hen pigeon (female pigeon), hen dove (female dove)”)

• kolombaĵo (“pigeon meat, dove meat, squab”)

• kolombaro (“flock of pigeons”)

• kolomba (“like a pigeon, columbine, peristeronic”)
• kolombejo (“columbary, pigeonhouse, dovecote”)
• kolombokolora (“columbine (color)”)
• kurierkolombo, leterkolombo (“homing pigeon (short form: homer), racing pigeon; carrier pigeon (a common misnomer for the two previous terms, especially in newspaper and magazine articles written by nonspecialists)”)

kolombo (plural kolombi)

1. dove, pigeon