colmẽa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *colmēna, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, derived from *kŏlmos (“straw”). Compare Galician colmea, Spanish colmena.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kol.ˈmẽ.a/

Noun

colmẽa f

  1. beehive
    • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 128 (facsimile):
      Eſta e do corpo de n[oſtr]o ſennor / que un vilão metera en hũa / ſa colmẽa por aver muito mel / i muita cera […]
      This one is (about) the body of our Lord, which a peasant placed in one of his beehives because there was a lot of honey and a lot of wax […]

Descendants
  • Fala: colmea
  • Galician: colmea
  • Portuguese: colmeia
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