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Yes. The word teme is a Scrabble US word. The word teme is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word teme is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

T1E1M3E1

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4-letter words (4 found)

MEET,METE,TEEM,TEME,

3-letter words (4 found)

EME,MEE,MET,TEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,EM,ET,ME,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from teme according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of teme

teme etme tmee mtee emte mete teem etem teem etem eetm eetm tmee mtee teme etme mete emte emet meet eemt eemt meet emet

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Definitions and meaning of teme

teme

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 timēre, present active infinitive of timeō.

Verb

teme

  1. fear

Dutch

Verb

teme

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of temen

Galician

Verb

teme

  1. inflection of temer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈte.me/, /ˈtɛ.me/
  • Rhymes: -eme, -ɛme
  • Hyphenation: té‧me, tè‧me

Verb

teme

  1. third-person singular present indicative of temere

Anagrams

  • mete

Japanese

Romanization

teme

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てめ

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French teme, tesme, from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

Alternative forms

  • teeme, theme, tyme

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛːm(ə)/

Noun

teme (plural temes)

  2. topic, focus, matter
  3. document, text
Descendants
  • English: theme
  • Scots: theme (obsolete)
References
  • “tēme, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

Noun

teme

  1. Alternative form of tem (“group”)

Etymology 3

Noun

teme

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

Etymology 4

Verb

teme

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

Etymology 5

Verb

teme

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

Etymology 6

Verb

teme

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: te‧me

Verb

teme

  1. inflection of temer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈte.me/
  • Rhymes: -eme
  • Hyphenation: te‧me

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin timēre, present active infinitive of timeō, through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *tīmēre.

Verb

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

  1. (reflexive) to fear
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • temere
Related terms
  • teamă
  • teamăt
  • temoare

Etymology 2

Inflected form of temă.

Noun

teme f

  1. inflection of temă:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • tjȅme (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *těmę.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tême/
  • Hyphenation: te‧me

Noun

tȅme n (Cyrillic spelling те̏ме)

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

Declension

Noun

teme (Cyrillic spelling теме)

  1. inflection of tema:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteme/ [ˈt̪e.me]
  • Rhymes: -eme
  • Syllabification: te‧me

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English teme.

Noun

teme m (plural temes)

  1. teme (technological meme)

Etymology 2

Verb

teme

  1. inflection of temar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Verb

teme

  1. inflection of temer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Noun

teme

  1. plural of tietetu

Wauja

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.mɛ/

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.

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