cyme

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• Received-Pronunciation: sīm
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• Received-Pronunciation: /saɪm/
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• rhymes with -aɪm
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] Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from Vulgar Latin *cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “to conceive”, “to become pregnant”; in the aorist “to impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Compare also Frankish *kīmō (“sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *kīmô, whence German Keim (“sprout”).

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

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Danish: kvast — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Esperanto: cumo — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Finnish: viuhko — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• German: Zyme — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvast — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Polish: wierzchotka — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Portuguese: cima — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Portuguese: cimeira — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Swedish: centrifugal inflorenscens — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Swedish: cymös blomställning — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Swedish: knippelik blomställning — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head
• Swedish: begränsad blomställning — botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head