different between glome vs gome

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??m/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

Noun

glome (plural glomes)

1. (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
2. (botany) A globular head of flowers.
3. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

Etymology 2

Verb

glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate

     Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
     Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome

Noun

glome

1. (obsolete) gloom

Anagrams

• Gomel, golem

English

Etymology

From Middle English gome (“man”), from Old English guma (“man”), from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *??m? (“earthling”), *d???m?m? (“earthling”). Cognate to Latin hom??, whence English homo, a doublet. See also human.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m/

Noun

gome

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) A man.

Usage notes

The word gome survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is not used in common speech.

Related terms

• bridegroom

References

• DSL
• Chetham Miscellanies, Volume 2
• DSL

Anagrams

• mego

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English guma, from Proto-Germanic *gumô, from Proto-Indo-European *??m?.

Alternative forms

• gume, goome, gomme, gone, gom, goom

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?m(?)/, /??um(?)/

Noun

gome (plural gomes or gomen)

2. A man; a male human being.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     And þus bigynneth þes gomes · to greden ful hei?.

   • c1450, Life of Saint Cuthbert?

     Some towns wex near toom, In the which woned many a gome.

   • a1460-a1500, The Towneley Plays:

     To thee, Jesus, I make my mone..farwell! gracious gome! where so thou gone..

3. A fighter or combatant; one who engages in battle.
4. A young male; a child who is male.
5. A person of any gender; a human being.
6. (rare) A male hireling, assistant or underling
7. (rare) A bridegroom; a male spouse.

Related terms

• bridegome

Descendants

• English: gome
• Scots: gome

References

• gome in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “g?me, g?me, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English g?ma, from Proto-Germanic *g?mô.

Alternative forms

• gume, goome, gomme, gumme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?m(?)/, /???m(?)/

Noun

gome (plural gomes or goman)

2. (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth; the gum.
3. The interior of one's mouth; the palate or roof of the mouth.
4. (rare, Late Middle English) One's teeth or jaws.

Descendants

• English: gum (dialectal goom)
• Scots: goom, geem, gum

References

• “g??me, gom(m)e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old Norse gaumr, from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz.

Alternative forms

• gom, goom

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?m/

Noun

gome (uncountable)

2. Regard, attention, gaum.

Descendants

• English: gaum, gorm (dialectal)
• Scots: goam

References

• “g??me, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome.

Noun

gome

1. Alternative form of gumme

Etymology 5

From Old English gomen, variant of gamen.

Noun

gome

1. Alternative form of game

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English gome, gume, from Old English guma (“man, lord, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man”).

Noun

gome (plural gomes)

1. a man