different between teme vs eme

English

Etymology

Blend of technological +? meme; introduced by Susan Blackmore in 2008.

Noun

teme (plural temes)

1. A meme which lives in a technological artifact rather than the human mind.

Anagrams

• etem, meet, mete, teem

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

teme

1. Obsolete spelling of temeh

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin tim?re, present active infinitive of time?.

Verb

teme

1. fear

Dutch

Verb

teme

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of temen

Italian

Pronunciation

• téme or tème
• IPA^(key): /?teme/ or IPA^(key): /?t?me/

Verb

teme

1. third-person singular indicative present of temere

Anagrams

• mete

Japanese

Romanization

teme

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English t?am, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.

Alternative forms

• tem, team, them, theam, tæm, teome, teem, teeme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m/

Noun

teme (plural temes)

2. kinfolk, clan, people
3. (law) The privilege of making decisions about ownership disputes between a person's subordinates.
4. A group of livestock used to pull an agricultural instrument
5. A group of waterfowl or chickens.
6. descendants, children; also extended to the following:
   1. (law) The descendants of one's subordinates.
7. (rare) The ability to procreate or give birth.
8. (rare) team, company, band.

Related terms

• barntem

Descendants

• English: team
• Scots: team

References

• “t?m(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

From Old French teme, tesme, from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek ???? (théma).

Alternative forms

• tyme, theme, teeme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??m(?)/

Noun

teme (plural temes)

2. topic, focus, matter
3. document, text

Descendants

• English: theme
• Scots: theme (obsolete)

References

• “t?me, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 3

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to give birth, to support”)

Etymology 4

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to drain, to empty”)

Etymology 5

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to tame”)

Etymology 6

Noun

teme

1. (Northern ME) Alternative form of tyme (“time”)

Portuguese

Verb

teme

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of temer
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of temer

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tim?re, present active infinitive of time?, through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *t?m?re.

Verb

a teme (third-person singular present teme, past participle temut) 3rd conj.

1. (reflexive) to fear

Conjugation

Derived terms

• temere

Related terms

• team?
• team?t
• temoare

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): tj?me

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?m?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tême/
• Hyphenation: te?me

Noun

t?me n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. top, crown (of the head)
2. top, apex

Declension

Spanish

Verb

teme

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of temer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of temer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of temer.

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Noun

teme

1. plural of tietetu

Wauja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.m?/

Noun

teme

1. tapir, Tapirus terrestris

References

• E. Ireland field notes, confirmed with Piitsa, Muri, and other elders (all experienced hunters) in 1982 using José Cândido de Melo Carvalho's Atlas da Fauna Brasileira, Edições Melhoramentos, São Paulo, 1981.

English

Alternative forms

• eam
• eem (dialectal)
• eame
• neam
• neame
• neme

Etymology

From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ?am (“uncle”). See eam.

Noun

eme (plural emes)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle.
2. (Scotland) Friend.

Related terms

• eam

Anagrams

• Mee, eem, mee

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Gascon hemna (“woman”), from Old Occitan femna (“woman”), itself from Latin f?mina (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /e.me/

Etymology 1

Noun

eme anim

1. female

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

eme inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

Further reading

• “eme” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “eme” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Hungarian

Etymology

em (variation of íme) +? e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m?]
• Hyphenation: eme
• Rhymes: -m?

Pronoun

eme

1. (archaic, poetic) this

Determiner

eme (demonstrative)

1. (archaic, poetic) this
   • 1846, Pet?fi Sándor, Egy gondolat bánt engemet...

     És a zászlókon eme szent jelszóval: - (And on the flags with this holy word:)

     „Világszabadság!” - (World freedom!)

Usage notes

A rarer substitute of ez, but unlike ez, it does not take the case of the noun it is attached to, and no definite article is used:

Use eme before words beginning with consonants.Use emez before words beginning with vowels (e.g. emez esetben, emez alkalommal).

Synonyms

• e
• ezen

Derived terms

• mindeme

Further reading

• eme 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

Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from emoglobina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.me/
• Rhymes: -?me
• Hyphenation: è?me

Noun

eme m (plural emi)

1. (biochemistry) heme

Latin

Verb

eme

1. second-person singular present active imperative of em?

Nauruan

Etymology

From Pre-Nauruan *mata, from Proto-Micronesian *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *mata.

Noun

eme

1. eye

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese eme.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e.mj/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??.m?/
• Hyphenation: e?me

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eme.

Scots

Alternative forms

• eam
• eame
• eem
• eeme
• eime
• emm
• emme
• eyme

Etymology

From Middle English eem, from Old English ?am, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), related to Latin avus (“grandfather”). Cognate with Dutch Dutch oom, German German Ohm, German Oheim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [im]

Noun

eme (plural emes)

1. maternal uncle
2. friend

Synonyms

• (maternal uncle): mither-brither

Related terms

• uncle (“paternal uncle”)

Further reading

• “eme” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Spanish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eme/, [?e.me]

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Etymology 2

From mierda (“shit”).

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

1. Euphemistic form of mierda.

Further reading

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

Tacana

Noun

eme

1. hand