cyme

== English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from Vulgar Latin *cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “to conceive”, “to become pregnant”; in the aorist “to impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Compare also Frankish *kīmō (“sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *kīmô, whence German Keim (“sprout”). ==== Alternative forms ==== cime (in the obsolete first sense only, [18th century]) ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sīm, IPA(key): /saɪm/ Rhymes: -aɪm ==== Noun ==== cyme (plural cymes) (obsolete, rare) 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. Coordinate term: raceme (architecture) A cyma. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting. ==== Noun ==== cyme Misspelling of senna. ==== References ==== “Cyme” listed on page 1303 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1893]  Cyme (Shaks. Macb. v. iii. 55, 1st Folio), supposed to be an error for cynne, Senna. [¶] 1605 Shaks. Macb. v. iii. 55 What Rubarb, Cyme, or what Purgatiue drugge Would scowre these English hence. “cyme” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989] == French == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === cyme f (plural cymes) (botany) cyme === Further reading === “cyme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Old English == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-West Germanic *kumi, from Proto-Germanic *kumiz (“arrival”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Akin to Old Frisian keme, Old Saxon kumi, Old High German cumi (“arrival”), Gothic 𐌵𐌿𐌼𐍃 (qums), Old English cuman (“to come”). More at come. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈky.me/ ==== Noun ==== cyme m coming, arrival; advent, approach late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History an event an outcome, result ===== Declension ===== Strong i-stem: ===== Descendants ===== Middle English: come, cume, coom, coome, kime, keome (Early Middle English)English: come (obsolete)Scots: come === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *kūmiz (“delicate, feeble”). Akin to Old High German kūmo (“tender, dainty, weak”) (German kaum (“hardly”)), (Dutch kuim (“weak; hardly”)) . ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈkyː.me/ ==== Adjective ==== cȳme comely, lovely, splendid, beautiful exquisite ===== Declension ===== ===== Related terms ===== cȳmlīċ