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Galician
Etymology 1
Back-formation from escolmar (“to select”),
Pronunciation
Noun
escolma m (plural escolmas)
- selection
- Synonym: escolla
- (literary) anthology
- Synonym: antoloxía
- Neste volume presentamos unha escolma da nosa lírica medieval. ― In this volume we present an anthology of our Medieval poetry.
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escolma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escolma”, 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), “escolma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Etymology 2
Verb
escolma
- inflection of escolmar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative