colmo
Galician
editEtymology 1
edit13th 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 a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *kŏlmos; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos.[1] Cognate with Asturian cuelmu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcolmo m (plural colmos)
- thatch (usually the stalks of rye and wheat)
- 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:
- 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
- a sheaf (of straw)
- a thatched roof
Derived terms
editAdjective
editcolmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas)
- spiky (when referred to the hair)
- Synonyms: colmaceiro, colmeiro
References
edit- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “colmo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “colmo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “colmo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “colmo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cuelmo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Etymology 2
editVerb
editcolmo
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom the short past participle of colmare (“to fill”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle colmato.[1]
Adjective
editcolmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmi, feminine plural colme) (di)
Etymology 2
editFrom Latin culmen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Possibly influenced by cumulus or culmus phonetically. Compare Spanish colmo. Doublet of the borrowed culmine.
Noun
editcolmo m (plural colmi)
Verb
editcolmo
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Ledgeway 2016: 221
Further reading
edit- Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 206–227. Oxford: OUP.
Anagrams
editPortuguese
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin culmus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editcolmo m (plural colmos)
- (uncountable) cane (slender flexible stem of plants such as bamboo)
- (countable, botany) reed (hollow stem)
- Synonym: cana
- thatch (straw for covering roofs or stacks)
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editPronunciation
edit
Verb
editcolmo
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old Spanish colmo, from Latin cumulus, following metathesis and syncopation, according to Ralph Penny[1] and the Royal Spanish Academy,[2] cf. tolmo from Latin tumulus. Doublet of cúmulo. The phonetically-similar Latin culmen survived as cumbre.
Noun
editcolmo m (plural colmos)
- summit, top
- height
- the extreme of a situation
- Esto es el colmo. ¡Me largo!
- This is too much. I'm gone!
- Ya has llegado al colmo con tu actitud.
- You've already crossed the line with your attitude.
- para colmo (de males) ― to cap/top it all
- 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.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editSee also
editAdjective
editcolmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas)
- heaping, protruding at the top
References
edit- ^ Penny, Ralph (2002) chapter 2, in A History of the Spanish Language, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 2.5.5, page 89
- ^ “colmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Etymology 2
editNoun
editcolmo m (plural colmos)
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editcolmo
Further reading
edit- “colmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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