colmo

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.[1] Cognate with Asturian cuelmu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔlmo̝/, /ˈkolmo̝/

colmo m (plural colmos)

1. thatch (usually the stalks of rye and wheat)
   • 1408, José Luis Novo Cazón (ed.), 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

• colma
• colmar (“to thatch”)
• colmazo
• colmea (“beehive”)
• escolmar

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

1. spiky (when referred to the hair)

   Synonyms: colmaceiro, colmeiro

• “colmo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

From colmare.

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

1. full (of)

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.

colmo m (plural colmi)

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

colmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colmare

• colmare

• culminare

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɫ.mu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkow.mu/
• Hyphenation: col‧mo

colmo m (plural colmos)

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

• (reed): cana

• colmeia

colmo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of colmar

   Eu colmo o telhado.

   I thatch the roof.

From Latin cumulus, following metathesis and syncopation, according to the Real Academia Española [1] and other sources [2].

colmo (plural colmos)

1. summit, top
2. height

• para colmo

• colmar
• cúmulo

• culminar
• culminación
• cumbre

colmo m (plural colmos)

1. 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.

colmo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of colmar.