cyme
English
/saɪm/
noun
Definitions
- (spelt l) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
- (botany) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme (raceme).
- (architecture) = cyma
Etymology
Borrowed from French cime (peak, summit, top of a tree) derived from Latin *cima, 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
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cyma English
- cymiferous English
- cymotrichous English
- *cima Latin
- cyma Latin
- cymosus Latin
- cymula Latin
- cȳma Latin
- cima Italian
- cime French
- κυμαίνω Ancient Greek
- κῠ́ω Ancient Greek
- κῦμα Ancient Greek
- τριχ- Ancient Greek
- cime Old French
- recimer Old French
- cima Catalan, Valencian
- κύμα Greek (modern)
- qime Albanian
- cima Old Portuguese
- cima Old Spanish
- *kūmə Proto-Hellenic