Etymograph

English

colonnette

Colonnette comes from French colonnette ‘a small column’, from Latin culmen ‘a pillar, top, crown, summit’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- ‘to rise, be tall’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kelH-‘to rise, be tall’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kolamenreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEculmen‘a pillar, top, crown, summit’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolumna‘column, pillar’
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400columne‘column’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600colomne‘column’
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentcolonne‘column, pillar’
  8. French, derivedc. 1600–presentcolonnette‘a small column’
  9. Englishtodaycolonnette

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kelH-‘to rise, be tall’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kolamenreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEculmen‘a pillar, top, crown, summit’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolumna‘column, pillar’
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400columne‘column’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600colomne‘column’
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentcolonne‘column, pillar’
  8. French, derivedc. 1600–presentcolonnette‘a small column’
  9. Englishtodaycolonnette

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *kelH- ‘to rise, be tall’

hill, excellent, excellence, hale, excellency, excelsior, holm, culminate, 8 more

through Latin culmen ‘a pillar, top, crown, summit’

culmination, 5 more

through Latin columna ‘column, pillar’

columnar, columella, 3 more

through Old French columne ‘column’

column, 1 more

Today it means

noun A small, thin column, especially one used to support an arcade.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kelH- / colonnette

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