colmo.
summit, top
Meaning & usage
summit, top
height
the extreme of a situation
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.
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.
thatch
thatched roof
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Latin culmus.
first-person singular present indicative of colmar
Where this word comes from
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