cime

See also: címe, cimé, and čime

French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

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• Rhymes: -im

Noun

cime f (plural cimes)

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of cimetière.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Noun

cime m (plural cimes)

1. (France, informal) Short for cimetière.

Further reading

• “cime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• príosúnach

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cime”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), chapter CIMMID, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Noun

cime f pl

1. plural of cima

Spanish

Verb

cime

1. inflection of cimar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative