cyme

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

Etymology

] Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱúh₁mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *kūmə 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”).

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