different between theme vs teme

English

Etymology

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek ???? (théma), from ?????? (títh?mi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?m/
• Hyphenation: theme
• Rhymes: -i?m (for all senses)
• Rhymes: -i?mi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

Noun

theme (plural themes)

1. A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
2. A recurring idea; a motif.
3. (dated) An essay written for school.
4. (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
5. (film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
6. (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
7. (grammar) The stem of a word.
8. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
9. (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
10. (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
11. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

theme (third-person singular simple present themes, present participle theming, simple past and past participle themed)

1. (transitive) To give a theme to.

   We themed the birthday party around superheroes.

2. (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

References

• Theme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hemet

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

theme (plural themes)

1. Alternative form of teme (“topic”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

theme

1. Alternative spelling of þeme (“them”)

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.