different between ayme vs acme

English

Etymology 1

Noun

ayme (plural aymes)

1. Obsolete form of aim.

Verb

ayme (third-person singular simple present aymes, present participle ayming, simple past and past participle aymed)

1. Obsolete form of aim.

Etymology 2

Noun

ayme (plural aymes)

1. (obsolete) The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me!"

Related terms

• ay

Anagrams

• Amey, Amye, Maye, maye

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (akm?, “point, top”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.mi/

Noun

acme (plural acmes)

1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. [c. 1610]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:apex

   • The very acme and pitch of life for epic poesy.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.

2. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
3. Mature age; full bloom of life.

   • He must be one that can instruct your youth,
     And keep your acme in the state of truth

Translations

Further reading

• acme at OneLook Dictionary Search
• acme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ECMA, EMAC, Mace, Ma?e, came, eMac, mace

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (akm?).

Noun

acme f (invariable)

1. acme (pinnacle, culmination)

   Synonyms: apice, culmine, sommità

Further reading

• acme in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana