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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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crumb
English
Alternative forms
- crimb (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English crome, cromme, crumme, crume, from Old English cruma (“crumb, fragment”), from Proto-Germanic *krumô, *kr?mô (“fragment, crumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gr?-mo- (“something scraped together, lumber, junk; to claw, scratch”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist, wind”). The b is excrescent, as in limb and climb, appearing in the mid 15th century to match crumble and words like dumb, numb, thumb. Cognate with Dutch kruim (“crumb”), Low German Krome, Krume (“crumb”), German Krume (“crumb”), Danish krumme (“crumb”), Swedish dialectal krumma (“crumb”), Swedish inkråm (“crumbs, giblets”), Icelandic krumur (“crumb”), Latin gr?mus (“a little heap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
crumb (countable and uncountable, plural crumbs)
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- A small piece of other material, such as rubber.
- 2012, Caroline Joy Adams, An Italic Calligraphy Handbook (page 79)
- Then erase any pencil lines with a good, soft eraser, rubbing gently, in only one direction. A dustbrush can be useful in removing any eraser crumbs.
- 2012, Caroline Joy Adams, An Italic Calligraphy Handbook (page 79)
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
- Dust unto dust, what must be, must; / If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust.
- 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
- 1999, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice on the Outside (page 146)
- All Dad can think of is a gift certificate from the Melody Inn? And my crumb of a boyfriend doesn't even show up? This is a birthday?
- 1999, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice on the Outside (page 146)
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
Synonyms
- (crumbled food): crumbling
- (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.
Derived terms
Related terms
- crumble
- crumpet
- crumbum
Translations
Verb
crumb (third-person singular simple present crumbs, present participle crumbing, simple past and past participle crumbed)
- (transitive) To cover with crumbs.
- (transitive) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
- to crumb bread
Derived terms
- crumbed
Related terms
- crumple
Translations
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