# cyme
## English
### Etymology 1

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, “I conceive”, “I become pregnant”; in the aorist “I 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”).

#### Alternative forms

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

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

cyme (plural cymes)
* (obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
* (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.
** 1906, “Gentianaceæ”, in Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, editors, The New International Encyclopædia:The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.
** 2003, S. M. Reddy, S. J. Chary, University Botany 2: Gymnosperms, Plant Anatomy, Genetics, Ecology, page 190:The plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme.
** 2003, David Curtis Ferree, Ian J. Warrington, Apples: Botany, Production and Uses, page 157:The flower cluster is a cyme (terminal flower is the most advanced), is terminal within the bud and may contain up to six individual flowers.
* (architecture) = cyma

##### Derived terms

* cymelet
* cymiferous
* cymoid

##### Related terms

* cyma
* cyma inversa
* cymaise
* cyma recta
* cyma reversa
* cymatic
* cymatics
* cymatile
* cymatium
* cymatograph
* cymatolite
* cymobotryose
* cymograph
* cymoid, cymatoid
* cymophane
* cymophanous
* cymoscope, cymatoscope
* cymose
* cymosely
* cymotrichous, cymatotrichous
* cymotrichy
* cymous
* cymule
* cymulose

##### Translations
#### References

* 1 2 3 4 "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.
* 1 2 3 4 "cyme” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
* ↑ “cyme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ Harris, James G., and Melinda Woolf Harris. 2001. Plant Identification Terminology, 2nd Edition. Spring Lake Publishing, Spring Lake, Utah, USA.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

cyme (plural cymes)
* 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)
* (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-West Germanic *kumi, 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: /ˈky.me/

#### Noun

cyme m
* coming, arrival; advent, approach
** late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
    ...ymb fēower ⁊ fēowertiġ wintra Ongolcynnes cȳmes in Breotone...about forty-four years after the arrival of the Angles in Britain.
* an event
* an outcome, result

##### Declension

Strong i-stem:

##### Descendants

* Middle English: come, cume, coom, coome, kime, keome (Early Middle English)
** 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: /ˈkyː.me/

#### Adjective

cȳme
* comely, lovely, splendid, beautiful
* exquisite

##### Related terms

* cȳmlīċ