colmo

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word colmo. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word colmo, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say colmo in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word colmo you have here. The definition of the word colmo will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofcolmo, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: colmó and colmò

Galician

a Galician palloza house, with thatched roof (teito de colmo)

Etymology 1

13th 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. Cognate with Asturian cuelmu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔlmo̝/, /ˈkolmo̝/

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

  1. 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
  2. a sheaf (of straw)
  3. a thatched roof
Derived terms

Adjective

colmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas)

  1. spiky (when referred to the hair)
    Synonyms: colmaceiro, colmeiro

References

  • “colmo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “colmo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “colmo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “colmo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cuelmo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Etymology 2

Verb

colmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of colmar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkol.mo/
  • Rhymes: -olmo
  • Hyphenation: cól‧mo

Etymology 1

From the short past participle of colmare (“to fill”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle colmato.

Adjective

colmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmi, feminine plural colme) (di)

  1. full (of)

Etymology 2

From 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

colmo m (plural colmi)

  1. summit, top, acme
  2. height
  3. limit
  4. ridge

Verb

colmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of colmare
Related terms

References

  1. ^ Ledgeway 2016: 221

Further reading

  • 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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin culmus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -olmu, (Brazil) -owmu
  • Hyphenation: col‧mo

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

  1. (uncountable) cane (slender flexible stem of plants such as bamboo)
  2. (countable, botany) reed (hollow stem)
    Synonym: cana
  3. thatch (straw for covering roofs or stacks)
Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔlmu, (Brazil) -ɔwmu
  • Hyphenation: col‧mo

Verb

colmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of colmar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkolmo/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -olmo
  • Syllabification: col‧mo

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

  1. summit, top
  2. height
  3. 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
Related terms
See also

Adjective

colmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas)

  1. heaping, protruding at the top
    fanega colma ― protruding bushel

References

  1. ^ Penny, Ralph (2002) chapter 2, in A History of the Spanish Language, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 2.5.5, page 89
  2. ^ “colmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin culmus.

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

  1. thatch
  2. thatched roof

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

colmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of colmar

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia