Noun: colmena
Gender: f
Hyphenation: col‧me‧na
| Singular f | colmena |
| Plural f | colmenas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like colmena
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱélh₂m̥
3. Proto-Celtic *kolmos
4. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
5. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
6. Proto-Celtic *-īnos
7. Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā
8. Hispano-Celticbor.?
9. Vulgar Latin *colmēna
10. Old Spanish colmena
11. Spanish colmena
12. Inherited from Old Spanish colmena, from Vulgar Latin *colmēna, probably a borrowing from a Hispano-Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, from *kolmos (“straw”) + *-īnā (relational suffix). Doublet of cuelmo (“torch”).
Verbs referencing "colmena"
Portuguese Nouns
colmeia, Galician Nouns
colmea.
Translations