colmater

== French == === Etymology === From colmate (“land for filling”), from Italian colmata (“filled”), from Latin cumulāre, form of cumulō (“to heap, fill”); compare cumulus (“a heap”). Cognate to Italian colmare; Spanish and Portuguese colmar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔl.ma.te/ === Verb === colmater (transitive) to fill in (a low land) (transitive) to plug (a hole) (reflexive) to fill up ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “colmater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012