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Yes. The word cyma is a Scrabble US word. The word cyma is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (1 found)

CYMA,

3-letter words (6 found)

CAM,CAY,MAC,MAY,MYC,YAM,

2-letter words (5 found)

AM,AY,MA,MY,YA,

You can make 12 words from cyma according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cyma

cyma ycma cmya mcya ymca myca cyam ycam caym acym yacm aycm cmay mcay camy acmy macy amcy ymac myac yamc aymc mayc amyc

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Definitions and meaning of cyma

cyma

Alternative forms

  • sima, syma [16th century]
  • cima, scima [18th century]

Etymology

From New Latin cȳma (“young sprout or shoot of cabbage”) (whence the botanic usage of cyme), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave”, “cyma”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “I conceive, I become pregnant”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sīʹmə, IPA(key): /ˈsaɪmə/
  • Rhymes: -aɪmə

Noun

cyma (plural cymas or cymae or cymæ or cymata)

  1. (architecture) A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee.
  2. (botany) A cyme.

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References

  • “‖ Cyma” listed on page 1,302 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1893]
    ‖ Cyma (səi·mă). Also 6 syma, 6–9 sima, 7–8 scima, 8–9 cima. [mod.L., a. Gr. κῦμα anything swollen, a billow, a wave, a waved or ogee moulding, the young sprout of a cabbage (in which sense also L. cȳma, whence the botanical use).] [¶] 1. Arch. A moulding of the cornice, the outline of which consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. [¶] Cyma recta: a moulding concave in its upper part, and convex in its lower part. Cyma reversa (rarely inversa): a moulding convex in its upper part, and concave in its lower part. [¶] 1563 Shute Archit. Ci b, 4 partes geue also to Sima reuersa. Ibid. Ciij b, That second parte which remayneth of the Modulus ye shall geue vnto Syma. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 267 Scima reversa..Scima recta, or Ogee. 1726 Leoni Alberti’s Archit. II. 34 b, A Cima inversa of the breadth of two minutes. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 642 The true cima, or cimaise. 1850 Leitch Müller’s Anc. Art. § 249. 258 A base of several plinths and cymas. [¶] 2. Bot. = Cyme 1 and 2. [¶] 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Cyma..the young Sprout of Coleworts, or other Herbs: a little Shoot, or Branch: But it is more especially taken by Herbalists for the top of any Plant. 1775 Lightfoot Flora Scotia (1792) I. 236 The cyma, or little umbel which terminates the branches.
  • Sturgis, Russel. Cyma, in A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical,... MacMillan Co.:1901.[1]
  • “cyma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “‖cyma” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Anagrams

  • Macy, YMCA

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow; fetus, embryo”), from κύω (kúō, “I am pregnant, I conceive”).

The Greek nominative plural is κῡ́ματα (kū́mata); *κυμαί (*kumaí), the first-declension nominative plural form which would give precedent to the Latin cȳmae, does not occur.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkyː.ma/, [ˈkyːmä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ma/, [ˈt͡ʃiːmä]

Noun

cȳma n (genitive cȳmatis); third declension
cȳma f (genitive cȳmae); first declension

  1. young sprout or spring shoot of cabbage
  2. hollow sphere
  3. spherical layer, stratum

Declension

Derived terms

  • cȳmaticus
  • cȳmatilis
    • cȳmatile
  • cȳmōsus
  • cȳmula

Related terms

  • cȳmatium

Descendants

References

  • “cyma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cyma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cyma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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