colmo

== Galician == === 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 Paleo-Hispanic *kŏlmos; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Asturian cuelmu. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈkɔlmo̝/, /ˈkolmo̝/ ==== Noun ==== colmo m (plural colmos) thatch (usually the stalks of rye and wheat) a sheaf (of straw) a thatched roof ===== Derived terms ===== colma colmar (“to thatch”) colmazo colmea (“beehive”) escolmar ==== Adjective ==== colmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas) spiky (when referred to the hair) Synonyms: colmaceiro, colmeiro ==== References ==== Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “colmo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega 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 === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== colmo 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) 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) summit, top, acme height limit ridge ==== Verb ==== colmo first-person singular present indicative of colmare ===== Related terms ===== colmare culminare === References === === 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 === Moloc, moloc == 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) (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 ===== colmeia === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔlmu, (Brazil) -ɔwmu Hyphenation: col‧mo ==== Verb ==== colmo first-person singular present indicative of colmar === Further reading === “colmo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “colmo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkolmo/ [ˈkol.mo] 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) summit, top height the extreme of a situation para colmo (de males) ― to cap/top it all ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== See also ===== culminar culminación cumbre ==== Adjective ==== colmo (feminine colma, masculine plural colmos, feminine plural colmas) heaping, protruding at the top fanega colma ― protruding bushel ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Latin culmus. ==== Noun ==== colmo m (plural colmos) thatch thatched roof === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== colmo first-person singular present indicative of colmar === Further reading === “colmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025