cime

See also: címe, cimé, and čime

French

Etymology

From Old French cime, from Latin cȳma, a borrowing from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma). Doublet of cyme.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sim/
  • cime(file)
  • Rhymes: -im

Noun

cime f (plural cimes)

  1. peak, summit (of mountain)
  2. top (of tree)

Further reading

Irish

Alternative forms
  • cimidh, cimeach, cimioch

Etymology

From Middle Irish cimme, cimmid, from Old Irish cimbid (“captive, prisoner”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈcɪmʲə/

Noun

cime m (genitive singular cime, nominative plural cimí)

  1. captive, prisoner

Declension
Declension of cime

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cime cimí
Vocative a chime a chimí
Genitive cime cimí
Dative cime cimí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cime na cimí
Genitive an chime na gcimí
Dative leis an gcime

don chime

 leis na cimí

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • cimigh (“commit (to prison); make captive”, transitive verb)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cime chime gcime
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "cime" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “cimmid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Italian

Noun

cime f pl

  1. plural of cima

Spanish

Verb

cime

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cimar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cimar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of cimar.
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