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cyma
English
Alternative forms
- sima, syma [16th century]; cima, scima [18th century]
Etymology
From New Latin c?ma (“young sprout or shoot of cabbage”) (whence the botanic usage of cyme), from Ancient Greek ???? (kûma, “swell, wave”, “cyma”, “sprout of a plant”), from ??? (kú?, “I conceive, I become pregnant”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??m?, IPA(key): /?sa?m?/
Noun
cyma (plural cymas or cymae or cymæ or cymata)
- (architecture) A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee.
- (botany) A cyme.
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Translations
References
- “? Cyma” listed on page 1,302 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1893]
? Cyma (s?i·m?). Also 6 syma, 6–9 sima, 7–8 scima, 8–9 cima. [mod.L., a. Gr. ???? anything swollen, a billow, a wave, a waved or ogee moulding, the young sprout of a cabbage (in which sense also L. c?ma, whence the botanical use).] [¶] 1. Arch. A moulding of the cornice, the outline of which consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. [¶] Cyma recta: a moulding concave in its upper part, and convex in its lower part. Cyma reversa (rarely inversa): a moulding convex in its upper part, and concave in its lower part. [¶] 1563 Shute Archit. Ci b, 4 partes geue also to Sima reuersa. Ibid. Ciij b, That second parte which remayneth of the Modulus ye shall geue vnto Syma. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 267 Scima reversa..Scima recta, or Ogee. 1726 Leoni Alberti’s Archit. II. 34 b, A Cima inversa of the breadth of two minutes. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 642 The true cima, or cimaise. 1850 Leitch Müller’s Anc. Art. § 249. 258 A base of several plinths and cymas. [¶] 2. Bot. = Cyme 1 and 2. [¶] 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Cyma..the young Sprout of Coleworts, or other Herbs: a little Shoot, or Branch: But it is more especially taken by Herbalists for the top of any Plant. 1775 Lightfoot Flora Scotia (1792) I. 236 The cyma, or little umbel which terminates the branches. - Sturgis, Russel. Cyma, in A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical,... MacMillan Co.:1901.[1]
- cyma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “?cyma” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
Anagrams
- Macy, YMCA
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ???? (kûma, “swell, wave, billow; fetus, embryo”), from ??? (kú?, “I am pregnant, I conceive”).
*????? (*kumaí), the first-declension nominative plural form which would give precedent to the Latin c?mae, does not occur.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ky?.ma/, [?ky?mä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?t??i.ma/, [?t??i?m?]
Noun
c?ma n (genitive c?matis); third declension
c?ma f (genitive c?mae); first declension
- young sprout or spring shoot of cabbage
- hollow sphere
- spherical layer, stratum
Declension
Derived terms
- c?maticus
- c?matilis
- c?matile
- c?m?sus
- c?mula
Related terms
- c?matium
Descendants
References
- cyma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cyma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cyma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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doucine
English
Etymology
From French [Term?]. Doublet of dulzaina.
Noun
doucine (plural doucines)
- (architecture) A cyma or ogee.
Anagrams
- Unicode
Old French
Alternative forms
- douçaine
Noun
doucine f (oblique plural doucines, nominative singular doucine, nominative plural doucines)
- (music) flute, oboe (or similar)
Descendants
- Spanish: dulzaina
- ? English: dulzaina
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