queme
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English quemen (“to please”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English cweman, cwēman (“to gratify, satisfy, please”) (compare cweme, cwēme (“pleasant, agreeable, acceptable”) and cwemnes, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English cwēmnes (“pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, be convenient, suit”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman (“come”), come. Compare also quim.
Verb
queme (third-person singular simple present quemes, present participle queming, simple past and past participle quemed)
- (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.
- c. 1385 Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book V:
- My fader nyl for no thyng do me grace / To gon aȝeyn, for naught I kan hym queme [...].
- 1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:
- Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.
- 1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:
- On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.
- 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:
- Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
- c. 1385 Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book V:
Related terms
Asturian
Verb
(deprecated template usage) queme
- first-person singular present subjunctive of quemar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of quemar
Spanish
Verb
queme
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of quemar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of quemar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of quemar.
Noun
queme m (plural quemes)
- burnout (psychology and ergonomics)
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English terms with obsolete senses
- Asturian non-lemma forms
- Asturian verb forms
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns