cyme

cyme · noun¹

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκῦμα“anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”
2. Latin · derived fromcȳma“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”
3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*cima
4. French · borrowed fromcime
5. English todaycyme

] Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁éyeti Ancient Greek κῠ́ω (kŭ́ō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă)bor. Latin cȳma Old French cime French cimebor. English cyme 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”).

cyme · noun²

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

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