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cyme
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)
- (spelt cime, obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
- (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.
- 1906, Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (editors), Gentianaceæ, article in The New International Encyclopædia,
- (architecture) = cyma
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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)
- 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
- coming, arrival; advent, approach
- an event
- 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
- comely, lovely, splendid, beautiful
- exquisite
Declension
Related terms
- c?ml??
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corymb
English
Alternative forms
- corymbus
Etymology
From the French corymbe, from the Latin corymbus, from the Ancient Greek ???????? (kórumbos).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k??r?mb, IPA(key): /?k???mb/
Noun
corymb (plural corymbs)
- (botany) A cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top.
Derived terms
- corymbiform
- corymbiferous
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