different between cima vs cama

English

Noun

cima sg

1. Obsolete spelling of cyma [18th century]

Anagrams

• -amic, -icam, ACMI, CMIA, Maci, aMCI, amic, cami, iMac, mica

Amis

Pronoun

cima

1. (interrogative) who

References

2017, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (?????????) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin c?ma, from Ancient Greek ???? (kûma).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?si.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?si.ma/

Noun

cima f (plural cimes)

1. summit, peak

   Synonym: cim

Further reading

• “cima” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cima, from Latin c?ma, from Ancient Greek ???? (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from ??? (kú?, “I am pregnant, conceive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ima?/, (western) /?sima?/

Noun

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top
2. peak, summit

   Synonyms: cume, cumio

Derived terms

References

• “cima” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cima” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cima” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cima” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cima” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??i.ma/

Etymology 1

From Latin c?ma, from Ancient Greek ???? (kûma).

Noun

cima f (plural cime)

1. top
2. peak, spur
3. summit
4. hawser, line, rope, cable (nautical)

Derived terms

• cimare
• cimette

Etymology 2

Verb

cima

1. inflection of cimare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• mica

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cima, from Latin c?ma, from Ancient Greek ???? (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from ??? (kú?, “I am pregnant, conceive”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?si.m?/

Noun

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top, summit

Derived terms

Sakizaya

Pronoun

cima

1. (interrogative) who

Southern Ndebele

Verb

-címa

1. to extinguish, to switch off

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??ima/, [??i.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sima/, [?si.ma]
• Homophone: sima (non-Castilian)

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish cima, from Latin c?ma (“young sprout, hollow sphere”) (compare French cime (“peak, summit, top of a tree”), Italian cima (“top, peak, summit”), Portuguese cima (“top”), Romanian cium? (“plague, pestilence”)), from Ancient Greek ???? (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from ??? (kú?, “to be pregnant, to conceive”).

Noun

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top

2. peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill)

   Synonyms: cumbre, pico

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cima

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cimar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cimar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cimar.

Further reading

• “cima” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swazi

Verb

-címa

1. to put out, to turn off the light

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (jim??)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ci?ma

Noun

cima (definite accusative cimay?, plural cimalar)

1. (dated) sexual intercourse

Declension

References

• cima in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Xhosa

Verb

-cîma

1. (transitive) to extinguish

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Verb

-címa

1. (transitive) to extinguish (fire), to put out (light), to quench
2. (transitive) to assuage (thirst etc.)
3. (transitive) to switch off, to turn off

   Synonym: -cisha

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “cima”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “cima (3.9)”

English

Etymology

Blend of camel +? llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidorus of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?m?]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

References

• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam??/

Adjective

cama

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call ????? to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) bed
   • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:

     Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.

     Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Portuguese: cama
  • ? Chichewa: kama
  • ? Kabuverdianu: kama
• Spanish: cama
  • ? Bikol Central: kama
  • ? Maranao: kama
  • ? Tagalog: kama

Further reading

• cama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old Irish

Adjective

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f

1. bed

Descendants

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin camba, itself from From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?). Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg, thigh

References

• Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/, [?k??.m?]
• Hyphenation: ca?ma
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

Derived terms

• saco-cama

See also

• quarto

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kama/, [?ka.ma]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonym: (less common) lecho

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.