cymatium

English

From Latin cȳmatium (“ogee”), from the Ancient Greek κῡμάτιον (kūmátion), the diminutive form of κῦμα (kûma, “wave”), whence cyma.

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cymatium (plural cymatiums or cymatia)

(architecture) A molding on the cornice, above the corona, often having a wavelike form (cyma).
- 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
  The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added emphasis by several inches' projection into the reception hall.

type of molding that is wavelike in form

From Ancient Greek κυμάτιον (kumátion, “small wave”).

cȳmatium n (genitive cȳmatiī or cȳmatī); second declension

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

“cymatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cymatium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin