cima
Catalan
noun
Definitions
- summit, peak
Etymology
Inherited from Latin cȳma (young sprout, young sprout of a cabbage, hollow sphere, spring shoots of cabbage) derived from Ancient Greek κῦμα (wave, billow, swell, something swollen, fetus, sprout of a plant, embryo, cyma, anything swollen, such as a wave billow).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κῦμα
Gloss
wave, billow, swell, something swollen, fetus, sprout of a plant, embryo, cyma, anything swollen, such as a wave billow
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
波
Emoji
👋 🌊 🏄️ 👋
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cyma English
- cymotrichous English
- *cima Latin
- cyma Latin
- cymosus Latin
- cymula Latin
- cȳma Latin
- cima Italian
- κυμαίνω Ancient Greek
- κῠ́ω Ancient Greek
- κῦμα Ancient Greek
- τριχ- Ancient Greek
- cime Old French
- recimer Old French
- κύμα Greek (modern)
- qime Albanian
- cima Old Portuguese
- cima Old Spanish
- *kūmə Proto-Hellenic