colmo

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See also: colmó and colmò

Galician

a Galician palloza house, with thatched roof (teito de colmo)

Etymology

13th century. Probably from Latin culmus (“thatch”), although the open stressed vowel found in some regions and the derived term colmea (“beehive”) suggest the influence of Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "qfa-sub-ibe" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. *kŏlmos; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos.[1] Cognate with Asturian cuelmu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔlmo̝/, /ˈkolmo̝/

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

  1. thatch (usually the stalks of rye and wheat)
    • 1408, José Luis Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 318:
      que façades a dicta metade da dicta casa de pedra e de madeyra e de giestas e de colmo
      you should build that half house with stone and wood and brooms and thatch
  2. a sheaf (of straw)
  3. a thatched roof

Derived terms

Adjective

colmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas)

  1. spiky (when referred to the hair)
    Synonyms: colmaceiro, colmeiro

References

  1. ^ Template:R:DCECH

Italian

Etymology 1

From colmare.

Adjective

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  1. full (of)

Etymology 2

From Latin culmen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Possibly influenced by cumulus or culmus phonetically. Compare Spanish colmo. Doublet of the borrowed culmine.

Noun

colmo m (plural colmi)

  1. summit, top, acme
  2. height
  3. limit
  4. ridge

Verb

colmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of colmare

Derived terms

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin culmus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Portugal" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈkoɫ.mu/
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  • Hyphenation: col‧mo

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

  1. (uncountable) cane (slender flexible stem of plants such as bamboo)
  2. (countable, botany) reed (hollow stem)
  3. thatch (straw for covering roofs or stacks)

Synonyms

Verb

colmo

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cumulus, following metathesis and syncopation, according to the Real Academia Española[1] and other sources[2].

Adjective

colmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas)

  1. summit, top
  2. height

Derived terms

See also

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

  1. the extreme of a situation
    Esto es el colmo. ¡Me largo!
    This is too much. I'm gone!
    Ya has llegado al colmo con tu actitud.
    You've already crossed the line with your attitude.
    para colmo (de males) ― to cap/top it all
    Y para colmo de males, no nos han pagado en dos meses tampoco.
    And to make it worse, they haven't paid us for two months either.

Verb

colmo

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of colmar.

References

  1. ^ “colmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. ^ https://www.scribd.com/doc/157209215/Diccionario-Critico-Etimologico-castellano-C-F-Corominas-Joan-pdf
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