cime

See also: címe, cimé, and čime

Albanian

Etymology

From the root cim-, related to cimb, cimak, cëmat, cëmoj, cimël, etj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡simɛ/

Noun

címe f (plural cime, definite cimja, definite plural cimet)

1. (regional) bleak (Alburnus, especially A. alburnus)

   Synonyms: korobace, pllashicë, cironkë, cirua, gjuhcë

2. (regional) gudgeon

   Synonym: cironkë

Declension

Declension of cime

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cime	cimja	cime	cimet
accusative		cimen
dative	cimeje	cimes	cimeve	cimeve
ablative			cimesh

Descendants

• → Greek: τσίμα (tsíma, “lake fish, similar to Atherina”)

Further reading

• “cime”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

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 singular plural nominative cime cimí vocative a chime a chimí genitive cime cimí dative cime cimí forms with the definite article 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

Mutated forms of cime

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cime	chime	gcime

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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), “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