Noun: colmeia
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | colmeia |
| Plural f | colmeias |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like colmeia
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese colmẽa, inherited from Vulgar Latin *colmēna, from Paleo-Hispanic, most likely from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, derived from *kŏlmos (“straw”). Compare Galician colmea and Spanish colmena. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
colmẽa', Galician Nouns '
colmea', Spanish Nouns '
colmena'.
Verbs referencing "colmeia"
Galician Nouns
colmea.
Translations