Noun: colmo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | colmo |
| Plural m | colmos |
Sample Sentences
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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) [1408, José Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 318:]
Nouns inflected like colmo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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 Paleo-Hispanic *kŏlmos; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Asturian cuelmu. See: Latin Nouns '
culmus'.
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