noun, feminine/kolˈmena/plural: colmenas
beehive; swarm of bees living in a beehive; crowded place
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱélh₂m̥ Proto-Celtic *kolmos Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Celtic *-īnos Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā Hispano-Celticbor.? Vulgar Latin *colmēna Old Spanish colmena Spanish colmena Inherited from Old Spanish colmena, from Vulgar Latin *colmēna, probably a borrowing from a Hispano-Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, from *kolmos (“straw”) + *-īnā (relational suffix). Doublet of cuelmo (“torch”).