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cyme¹
- /saɪm/ UK
Rhymes with -aɪm
Where it comes from
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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁éyeti
Ancient Greek κῠ́ω (kŭ́ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Hellenic *-mə
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă)bor.
Latin cȳma
Old French cime
French cimebor.
English cyme
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”).
noun cymes · cime
- A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
- 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. The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.
- A cyma.
cyme²
Where it comes from
An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.
noun
- Misspelling of senna
Translations
Talk about this word "cyme." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cyme. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cyme. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cyme "cyme." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cyme.Cite this
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title = {cyme},
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