colmo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔlmo̝/, /ˈkolmo̝/

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

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

Adjective

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

1. spiky (when referred to the hair)

   Synonyms: colmaceiro, colmeiro

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “colmo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (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

Verb

colmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colmar

Adjective

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

1. full (of)

Noun

colmo m (plural colmi)

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

Verb

colmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colmare

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -olmu, (Brazil) -owmu
• Hyphenation: col‧mo

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

1. (uncountable) cane (slender flexible stem of plants such as bamboo)
2. (countable, botany) reed (hollow stem)

   Synonym: cana

3. thatch (straw for covering roofs or stacks)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔlmu, (Brazil) -ɔwmu
• Hyphenation: col‧mo

Verb

colmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colmar

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

1. summit, top
2. height
3. 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.

Adjective

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

1. heaping, protruding at the top

   fanega colma ― protruding bushel

References

Noun

colmo m (plural colmos)

1. thatch
2. thatched roof

Verb

colmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colmar