Colombia

English

Etymology

From Spanish Colombia, from Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”); named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506).

Pronunciation
  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Homophone: Columbia

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Further reading

Asturian

Proper noun

Colombia f

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Danish

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Colombia. Named after Christopher Columbus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌkoːˈlɔm.bi.aː/
  • (Netherlands)
    audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Co‧lom‧bia

Proper noun

Colombia n

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms
  • Colombiaan
  • Colombiaans

Galician

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Interlingua

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /koˈlom.bja/, /koˈlɔm.bja/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ombja, -ɔmbja
  • Hyphenation: Co‧lóm‧bia, Co‧lòm‧bia

Proper noun

Colombia f

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms

References
  1. Colombia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Colombia

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Spanish

Etymology

From Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”) +‎ -ia. Named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) in 1819, from Francisco de Miranda's use of the term to designate Spanish America in the 1790s.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /koˈlombja/ [koˈlõm.bja]
  • (Colombia)
    Audio: "República de Colombia":(file)
  • (Peruvian)
    Audio: "Colombia; capital: Bogotá":(file)
  • Rhymes: -ombja
  • Syllabification: Co‧lom‧bia

Proper noun

Colombia f

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms

References
  1. Francisco de Miranda (1806 August 2) Proclamación de Don Francisco de Miranda, Comandante-General del Exército Colombiano, á los pueblos habitantes del Continente Americo-Colombiano (in Spanish)

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Colombia n (genitive Colombias)

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔˈlɔmbja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔmbja

Proper noun

Colombia f

  1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Coordinate terms

Derived terms
  • Gweriniaeth Colombia (“Republic of Colombia”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
Colombia Golombia Ngholombia Cholombia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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