different between cyma vs sima

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)

1. (architecture) A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee.
2. (botany) A cyme.

Derived terms

Related terms

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

1. young sprout or spring shoot of cabbage
2. hollow sphere
3. 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

English

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ????? (simós, “bent upwards”)

Noun

sima (plural simas)

1. (architecture) The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.

Etymology 2

Blend of silicon +? magnesium

Noun

sima (uncountable)

1. (geology) The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.

See also

• Si
• sial
• nife
• KREEP

Translations

Anagrams

• AMIs, Amis, ISAM, Isam, M'sia, MIAs, Masi, Sami, Siam, Sámi, aims, saim, siam

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si?ma

Noun

sima

1. a barb; a fluke

Derived terms

• sima-sima

Ese

Noun

sima

1. needle (usually made from flying fox bone)

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *saimaz (compare German Seim (“syrup”), Old Norse seimr (“honeycomb”)). The original meaning was “mead”, but the common meaning now refers to a different beverage, albeit one that is ultimately developed from mead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sim?/, [?s?im?]
• Rhymes: -im?
• Syllabification: si?ma

Noun

sima

1. a nonalcoholic or low-alcohol drink made from lemon, various sugars and water, common around vappu (May Day)
2. (dated) mead

Declension

Synonyms

• (mead): hunajaviini

Anagrams

• Sami, Siam, amis, masi, siam

Garo

Noun

sima

1. rotten food

Hungarian

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Either derived from regional simik (“to slide”), or from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??im?]
• Hyphenation: si?ma
• Rhymes: -m?

Adjective

sima (comparative simább, superlative legsimább)

1. smooth, sleek (having a texture that lacks friction)

   Antonym: érdes
2. flat, even, smooth (of land, road or ground, lacking elevations or protuberances)

   Antonyms: hepehupás, göröngyös
3. smooth (of a body of water, without ripples or waves)
4. smooth (pleasant to the senses, especially of sounds or tastes)
5. plain (not having any pattern, print or decoration)
6. blank (of paper, without any printed grid or lines)

   Coordinate terms: négyzethálós, kockás, vonalas
7. plain, regular, ordinary (out of several varieties, the basic one without anything extra)
8. continuous, smooth, unbroken (of a motion, without interruption)
9. (figuratively) smooth, simple, easy (without difficulty, problems or unexpected incidents)
10. (knitting) knit (of a stitch, passing through the previous loop from below, creating a V-shape)

    Antonym: fordított

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• sima in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Jamamadí

Noun

sima

1. (Banawá) sister

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Latin

Adjective

s?ma

1. nominative feminine singular of s?mus
2. nominative neuter plural of s?mus
3. accusative neuter plural of s?mus
4. vocative feminine singular of s?mus
5. vocative neuter plural of s?mus

Adjective

s?m?

1. ablative feminine singular of s?mus

References

• sima in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sima in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[6]
• sima in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *s?mô (“rope, cord”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?i- (“to tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?.m?/

Noun

s?ma m

1. cord, rope

Declension

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “s?ma”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sima/, [?si.ma]
• Homophone: cima (non-Castilian)

Noun

sima f (plural simas)

1. abyss, chasm

   Synonyms: abismo, precipicio

Further reading

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sima (n class, plural sima)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of ugali

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Noun

simà

1. feather at the end of an arrow
2. barb; side point on a spear or fishhook

Etymology 2

Noun

simâ

1. a kind of pot for catching fish; dip net

Tumbuka

Noun

sima 9 (plural sima 10)

1. nshima (porridge made from maize or sorghum)

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sima

1. fishing line

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yámana

Noun

sima

1. water