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4-letter words (1 found)

CYME,

3-letter words (1 found)

MYC,

2-letter words (4 found)

EM,ME,MY,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from cyme according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cyme

cyme ycme cmye mcye ymce myce cyem ycem ceym ecym yecm eycm cmey mcey cemy ecmy mecy emcy ymec myec yemc eymc meyc emyc

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Definitions and meaning of cyme

cyme

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from the Vulgar Latin *cima, from the Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from the Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “I conceive”, “I become pregnant”; in the aorist “I impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet.

Alternative forms

  • cime (in the obsolete first sense only, [18th century])

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sīm, IPA(key): /saɪm/
  • Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

cyme (plural cymes)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
  2. (botany) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme.
  3. (architecture) = cyma
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References

  • “Cyme” listed on page 1303 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1893]
      Cyme (səim). Also 8 cime. [a. F. cime, cyme, in the sense ‘top, summit’ (12th c. in Hatzf.): — pop. L. cima = L. cyma (see above); in the Bot. sense an 18th c. adaptation of the ancient L.] [¶] † 1. (cime.) A ‘head’ (of unexpanded leaves, etc.). Obs. rare. [¶] 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s. v. Sallet, The Buds and tender Cime of Nettles by some eaten raw, by others boiled. [¶] 2. Bot. (cyme.) A species of inflorescence wherein the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the system being continued by axes of secondary and higher orders which develop successively in like manner; a centrifugal or definite inflorescence: opposed to Raceme. Applied esp. to compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head. [¶] 1794 Martyn Rousseau’s Bot. v. 55 The arrangement of the flowers in the elder is called a cyme. 1854 S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 250 The meadow-sweet, with its crowded cymes. [¶] 3. Arch. = Cyma. [¶] 1877 Blackmore Erema III. xlvii. 106 This is what we call a cyme-joint, a cohesion of two curved surfaces.
  • “cyme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “cyme” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Etymology 2

An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.

Noun

cyme (plural cymes)

  1. Misspelling of senna.

References

  • “Cyme” listed on page 1303 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1893]
      Cyme (Shaks. Macb. v. iii. 55, 1st Folio), supposed to be an error for cynne, Senna. [¶] 1605 Shaks. Macb. v. iii. 55 What Rubarb, Cyme, or what Purgatiue drugge Would scowre these English hence.
  • “cyme” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

French

Noun

cyme f (plural cymes)

  1. (botany) cyme

Further reading

  • “cyme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *kumiz (“arrival”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Akin to Old Frisian keme, Old Saxon kumi, Old High German cumi (“arrival”), Gothic 𐌵𐌿𐌼𐍃 (qums), Old English cuman (“to come”). More at come.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈky.me/

Noun

cyme m

  1. coming, arrival; advent, approach
    • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  2. an event
  3. an outcome, result
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Descendants
  • Middle English: come, cume, coom, coome; kime, keome
    • English: come (obsolete)
    • Scots: come

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *kūmiz (“delicate, feeble”). Akin to Old High German kūmo (“tender, dainty, weak”) (German kaum (“hardly”)), (Dutch kuim (“weak; hardly”)) .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkyː.me/

Adjective

cȳme

  1. comely, lovely, splendid, beautiful
  2. exquisite
Declension
Related terms
  • cȳmlīċ

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