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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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (sêma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?m/
• Homophones: seam, seem
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

seme (plural semes or semata)

1. (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.

Related terms

• semantics
• semiotics

Etymology 2

Verb

seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)

1. Obsolete form of seem.

Etymology 3

Noun

seme (plural semes)

1. Obsolete form of seam.

Etymology 4

Adjective

seme

1. Obsolete form of semé.

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (seme), derived from the verb ??? (semeru, “to attack”).

Noun

seme (plural semes or seme)

1. (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.

Antonyms

• uke

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé, emes, mese, seem, smee

Asturian

Verb

seme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of semar

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *senbe.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /s?e.me/

Noun

seme anim

1. son

Declension

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Latin s?men.

Noun

seme m (plural semes)

1. semen

Synonyms

• esperma, inzo

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seme/

Verb

seme

1. (intransitive) to eat

Noun

seme m

1. food

Related terms

• same

Italian

Etymology

From Latin s?men, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se.me/
• enPR: séme, IPA^(key): /?se.me/

Noun

seme m (plural semi)

1. (botany) seed, pip
2. (botany, in some cases) bean
3. (anatomy, colloquial) semen

   Synonym: sperma

4. (card games) suit

Related terms

• semaio
• sementa
• semente
• semenza
• semina
• seminare

Further reading

• seme on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• mese

Japanese

Romanization

seme

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) sj?me

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?m?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sême/
• Hyphenation: se?me

Noun

s?me n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. seed
2. germ
3. semen
4. spawn
5. milt
6. offspring
7. prime cause

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?m?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sè?m?/

Noun

s??me n

1. seed

Inflection

Further reading

• “seme”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Venetian

Adjective

seme

1. feminine plural of semo