colmẽa
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *colmēna, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, derived from *kŏlmos (“straw”). Compare Galician colmea, Spanish colmena.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
colmẽa f
- 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 […]