The story
- Italian · derived fromColombo“Cristoforo Colombo”
- Spanish · borrowed fromColombia
- English todayColombia
Borrowed from Spanish Colombia, from Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”); named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Equivalent to Italian Colombo + -ia; piecewise doublet of Columbia.
Words from the same roots
ItalianColombo all →
colombocolumbiad
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.