escolma

Galician

Etymology 1

Back-formation from escolmar (“to select”),

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkɔlma̝/

Noun

escolma m (plural escolmas)

1. selection

   Synonym: escolla

2. (literary) anthology

   Synonym: antoloxía

   Neste volume presentamos unha escolma da nosa lírica medieval. ― In this volume we present an anthology of our Medieval poetry.

Related terms

• colmo
• escolmar

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escolma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escolma”, 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), “escolma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Etymology 2

Verb

escolma

1. inflection of escolmar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative