English Explanatory Dictionary

cyme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
  2. 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.
  3. A cyma.
noun
  1. Misspelling of senna.

Pronunciation

sīm /saɪm/

Word forms

cyme cymes cime

Etymology

] Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱúh₁mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *kūmə 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”).

Related words

cyma cyma inversa cymaise cyma recta cyma reversa cymatic cymatics cymatium cymatograph cymograph cymoid cymatoid cymophane cymophanous cymoscope cymatoscope cymose cymosely cymotrichous cymatotrichous cymotrichy cymous cymule

Derived words

cymelet cymiferous cymoid
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