Noun: colmo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: col‧mo
| Singular m | colmo |
| Plural m | colmos |
Sample Sentences
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Esto es el colmo. ¡Me largo! (This is too much. I'm gone!)
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Ya has llegado al colmo con tu actitud. (You've already crossed the line with your attitude.)
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para colmo (de males) (to cap/top it all)
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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.)
Nouns inflected like colmo
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish colmo, from Latin cumulus, following metathesis and syncopation, according to Ralph Penny and the Royal Spanish Academy, cf. tolmo from Latin tumulus. Doublet of cúmulo. The phonetically-similar Latin culmen survived as cumbre. See: Latin Nouns '
cumulus'.
Verbs referencing "colmo"
Catalan Nouns
gom, Italian Nouns
colmo, Portuguese Nouns
cúmulo.
Translations