different between cyme vs forum

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??

English

Alternative forms

• 4m (Internet leet)
• 4rum (Internet leet)

Etymology

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????m/
• Rhymes: -????m
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

forum (plural forums or fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
4. (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

   Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

5. (historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

Usage notes

The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.

• Ref: Modern English Usage, 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658).
• Also, "The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style," by Bryan A. Garner. Berkley Books, 2000, (p. 156).

Related terms

• conforaneous (rare)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin forum. The sense “Internet forum” comes from English forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?.r?m/
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

forum n (plural fora or forums, diminutive forumpje n)

1. forum (ancient Roman marketplace)
2. forum (venue, medium, vehicle; general place of exchange)
3. Internet forum

   Synonym: internetforum

Usage notes

All senses can use the plural fora. The plural forums is predominantly used for the sense “Internet forum”.

Derived terms

• internetforum

Related terms

• foor

French

Etymology

• Most meanings: Learned borrowing from Latin forum.
• Internet: Borrowed from English forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.??m/

Noun

forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. forum (for Internet)

Further reading

• “forum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch forum, from Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?for?m]
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

forum (plural forum-forum, first-person possessive forumku, second-person possessive forummu, third-person possessive forumnya)

1. forum: a place for discussion.
2. institution, body

   Synonyms: lembaga, wadah

3. meeting, session, assembly.

   Synonym: sidang

Alternative forms

• fora

Further reading

• “forum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.rum/
• Rhymes: -?rum
• Hyphenation: fò?rum

Noun

forum m (invariable)

1. forum (all meanings)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”). Cognate with foris, for?s, Old Church Slavonic ????? (dvor?, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit ????? (dv??ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo.rum/, [?f?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.rum/, [?f???um]

Noun

forum n (genitive for?); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• forensis
• forica

Descendants

References

• forum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• forum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• forum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• forum in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• forum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural fora or forumer, definite plural foraene or foruma or forumene)

1. a forum (place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural forum, definite plural foruma)

1. a forum (as above)

Polish

Etymology

From Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”). Doublet of dwór (“court, courtyard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.rum/

Noun

forum n

1. forum (all senses)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) forowicz, forumowicz
• (adjectives) forowy, forumowy

Further reading

• forum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin forum

Noun

forum n (plural forumuri)

1. forum

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??rum/
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. forum

Declension

Derived terms

• fórumsk?