Columbus
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin columbus.
Pronunciation- IPA: /kəˈlʌmbəs/
- A male given name.
- Surname.
- Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States.
- The capital city of Ohio, USA and the county seat of Franklin County.
- A city/county seat in Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
- A village in Adams County, Illinois.
- A city/county seat in Bartholomew County, Indiana.
- A city/county seat in Cherokee County, Kansas.
- A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
- A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota.
- A city/county seat in Lowndes County, Mississippi.
- An ucomm in Johnson County, Missouri.
- A town/county seat in Stillwater County, Montana.
- A city/county seat in Platte County, Nebraska.
- An ucomm in Burlington County, New Jersey.
- A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
- A town in Chenango County, New York.
- A town/county seat in Polk County, North Carolina.
- A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
- A small city/county seat in Colorado County, Texas.
- A small city in Columbia County, and.
- A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- (capital city of Ohio) Col's
Columbus (plural Columbuses)
- A person who makes a great discovery.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC ↗:
- "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."
- Russian: Колу́мбус
- French: Colomb, Christophe Colomb
- German: Kolumbus, Christoph Kolumbus, Christoph Columbus, Christoph Colon
- Italian: Cristoforo Colombo, Colombo
- Portuguese: Colombo
- Russian: Колу́мб
- Spanish: Cristóbal Colón, Colón
Columbus (Columbuses, present participle Columbusing; simple past and past participle Columbused)
- (possibly dated, slang) To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
- 1921, Forest Leaves, volume 15, page lxx:
- No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative.
- (derogatory, slang, US) To appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which is perceived as belonging to someone else.
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