Noun: colmẽa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | colmẽa |
| Plural f | colmẽas |
Sample Sentences
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Mando o meu quiñõ daſ colmeaſ de San Migueli de Monte Furado que aſ dia y que arça y a zera por mi alma (I give also my share of the beehives of Saint Michael in Monte Furado; let the wax burn there for my soul) [1281, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia, editor, História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI, Coimbra: I.N.I.C, page 133:]
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Eſta e do corpo de n[oſtr]o ſennor / que un vilão metera en hũa / ſa colmẽa por aver muito mel / i muita cera […] (This one is (about) the body of our Lord, which a peasant placed in one of his beehives because there was a lot of honey and a lot of wax […]) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 128 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/258small.gif] facsimile])]
Nouns inflected like colmẽa
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *colmēna, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, derived from *kolmos (“straw”). Cognate with Old Spanish colmena.
Verbs referencing "colmẽa"
Portuguese Nouns
colmeia, Galician Nouns
colmea.
Translations