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 (plural colmẽas)
- beehive
- a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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 […]
