colmado
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish colmado.
Noun edit
colmado (plural colmados)
- (Dominican Republic) A corner store.
- 1997 January 19, Robert W. Boyd, “Coming to Visit”, in soc.culture.[1] (Usenet):
- The beaches are beautiful but the people even more so and I think you will come away with a lot more from your visit if you venture outside the tourist districts. Make an effort to get into the poorer areas which lie on the outskirts of the big cities and spend a day at a colmado.
- 2010, David Himmelgreen, The Global Food Crisis, page 64:
- Flexibility, fairness, and amicability with customers were extremely important qualities of a successful colmado. At least one colmado in Santa Lucia suffered significant business losses because of development of a reputation for unfairness and inflexibility. The successful long-term capturing of household income by a colmado, largely a byproduct of solid credit relations, directly impacted the colmado's ability to remain in good standing with suppliers with whom they often held debt.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From colmar.
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)
- past participle of colmar
Adjective edit
colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)
- (of pigs) having spiky hair
- thatched
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
colmado m (plural colmados)
- (construction) thatched roof
References edit
- “colmado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “colmado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “colmado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Participle edit
colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)
- past participle of colmar
Spanish edit
Adjective edit
colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
colmado m (plural colmados)
- (Spain) limited corner store
- (Dominican Republic) local general store that is often also a social gather point
Related terms edit
Participle edit
colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)
- past participle of colmar
Further reading edit
- “colmado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014