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English

Etymology

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Verb

cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)

1. (film) Earn cumulatively at the box office.
   • 2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014:

     Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release.

Usage notes

Particularly in past or perfect forms, as “cumed” or “has cumed”, since “cumulative box office receipts” is primarily a backwards-looking concept.

Noun

cume (plural cumes)

1. (film) Cumulative box office receipts.
   • 2014, Justin Chang, Variety, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, November 4, 2014:

     With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.

   • 2017, Mark Hughes, "'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie"

     Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.

2. (radio, television) Cumulative audience.
   • 2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies

     If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.

3. (education) Cumulative grade point average.
   • 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum and Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw” in The Broadside of Boston, vol. III, No. 22:

Adjective

cume (not comparable)

1. (film) Cumulative.
   • 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable

     Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...

   • 2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media

     Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.

See also

• box office

Anagrams

• muce

Galician

Alternative forms

• crume

Etymology

15th century. From Latin culmen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Cognate with Portuguese cume and Spanish cumbre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kume?/

Noun

cume m (plural cumes)

1. mountain top, summit

   Synonym: cumio

2. ridge, roof top
   • 1433, Rodríguez González, Ángel / José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 63:

     a qual casa se ten por parede con outra casa de Juan Peres, notario da dita villa, de h?a parte, da outra parta se ten por cume et tavoado con outra mia casa

     the aforementioned house is next to the wall of another one that belongs to Juan Perez, notary of this town, in one side, and in the other is touching, by the ridge and the wooden wall, with another house of my property

   Synonyms: cima, cumio

3. ridge board
   • 1457, Tato Plaza, Fernando R. (ed.) (1999): Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega (Ponencia de Lingua)., page 185:

     Jtem diso máis que leuara de dentro da grãja de Saar, estando presente Martj?n de Dorrõ, h?u cume de castaño de des cóuodos, pouco máis o menos

     Item, he said more, that he had taken from the inside of the farm of Sar, in the presence of Martín de Dorrón, a chestnut ridge board, of some ten cubits long, give or take

   Synonyms: crucel, cumio

4. top position

   Synonyms: cima, cúspide

5. summit (gathering of leathers, etc)

   Synonym: cumio

Derived terms

• cumial
• cumieira
• cumio

Related terms

• culminar

References

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

Istriot

Alternative forms

• coûme

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *quomo (from Latin quom?do) + et. Compare Italian come, French comme, Romanian cum.

Adverb

cume

1. how
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:

     Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!

     How they row well on the high seas!

See also

• cumo

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *k?mo, from Proto-Germanic *k?mô.

Adverb

cume

1. barely, only just
2. almost, nearly

Descendants

• Dutch: kuim
• Limburgish: koem, koum (from German?)

Further reading

• “cume”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “cume”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Old English

Verb

cume

1. inflection of cuman:
   1. subjunctive present singular
   2. imperative singular

Old French

Conjunction

cume

1. Alternative form of conme

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin culmen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kum?/

Noun

cume m (plural cumes)

1. peak, the highest point of a mountain.

   Synonyms: cimo, sumo

Derived terms

• cumeeira

Related terms

• culminar

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from the Vulgar Latin *cima, from the Latin c?ma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from the Ancient Greek ???? (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from ??? (kú?, “I conceive”, “I become pregnant”; in the aorist “I impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet.

Alternative forms

• cime (in the obsolete first sense only, [18th century])

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?m, IPA^(key): /sa?m/

Noun

cyme (plural cymes)

1. (spelt cime, obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
2. (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. Contrast raceme.
   • 1906, Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (editors), Gentianaceæ, article in The New International Encyclopædia,

     The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.

   • 2003, S. M. Reddy, S. J. Chary, University Botany 2: Gymnosperms, Plant Anatomy, Genetics, Ecology, page 190,

     The plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme.

   • 2003, David Curtis Ferree, Ian J. Warrington, Apples: Botany, Production and Uses, page 157,

     The flower cluster is a cyme (terminal flower is the most advanced), is terminal within the bud and may contain up to six individual flowers.

3. (architecture) = cyma

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• “Cyme” listed on page 1303 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1893]
  ??Cyme (s?im).?Also 8 cime.?[a. F. cime, cyme, in the sense ‘top, summit’ (12th c. in Hatzf.):?—?pop. L. cima = L. cyma (see above); in the Bot. sense an 18th c. adaptation of the ancient L.]?[¶]?†?1.?(cime.)?A ‘head’ (of unexpanded leaves, etc.).?Obs. rare.?[¶]?1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s. v. Sallet, The Buds and tender Cime of Nettles by some eaten raw, by others boiled.?[¶]?2.?Bot. (cyme.)?A species of inflorescence wherein the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the system being continued by axes of secondary and higher orders which develop successively in like manner; a centrifugal or definite inflorescence: opposed to Raceme. Applied esp. to compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head.?[¶]?1794 Martyn Rousseau’s Bot. v. 55 The arrangement of the flowers in the elder is called a cyme.?1854 S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 250 The meadow-sweet, with its crowded cymes.?[¶]?3.?Arch.?= Cyma.?[¶]?1877 Blackmore Erema III. xlvii. 106 This is what we call a cyme-joint, a cohesion of two curved surfaces.
• cyme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “cyme” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Etymology 2

An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.

Noun

cyme (plural cymes)

1. 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]

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *kumiz (“arrival”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?em- (“to go, come”). Akin to Old Frisian keme, Old Saxon kumi, Old High German cumi (“arrival”), Gothic ???????????????? (qums), Old English cuman (“to come”). More at come.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ky.me/

Noun

cyme m

1. coming, arrival; advent, approach
2. an event
3. an outcome, result

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: come, cume, coom, coome
  • English: come (obsolete)
  • Scots: come

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *k?miz (“delicate, feeble”). Akin to Old High German k?mo (“tender, dainty, weak”) (German kaum (“hardly”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ky?.me/

Adjective

c?me

1. comely, lovely, splendid, beautiful
2. exquisite

Declension

Related terms

• c?ml??