English
supercolumn
From super- + column.
Proto-Indo-European *kelH- ‘to rise, be tall’
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Latin culmen ‘a pillar, top, crown, summit’
Latin columna ‘a column, pillar, post’
Old French columne
Middle English columne
English column
Today it means
noun A column comprising multiple subcolumns.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “supercolumn”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / supercolumn