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colmo.

summit, top

5 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkolmo/[ˈkol.mo]
  1. summit, top

    masculine
  2. height

    masculine
  3. the extreme of a situation

    masculine
    Esto es el colmo. ¡Me largo!
    Ya has llegado al colmo con tu actitud.
Where this word comes from

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.

adj/ˈkolmo/[ˈkol.mo]
  1. heaping, protruding at the top

    fanega colma
Where this word comes from

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/ˈkolmo/[ˈkol.mo]
  1. thatch

    masculine
  2. thatched roof

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Latin culmus.

verb/ˈkolmo/[ˈkol.mo]
  1. first-person singular present indicative of colmar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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