Cyme Definition
(architecture) = cyma.
Erroneous form of senna.
Other Word Forms of Cyme
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Origin of Cyme
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From the 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 (kūma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kuō, “I conceive”, “I become pregnant”; in the aorist “I impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma.
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Latin cȳma young cabbage sprout from Greek kūma anything swollen, sprout cyma
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.
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