colmena
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *colmēna, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, most likely from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, derived from *kŏlmos (“straw”). Compare Galician colmea and Portuguese colmeia.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
colmena f (plural colmenas)
Derived terms[edit]
- colmenar (“apiary”)
- colmenero (“beekeeper”)
- colmenilla
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “colmena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms derived from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/ena
- Rhymes:Spanish/ena/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
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- es:Animal dwellings
- es:Bees