cima

cima sg

1. Obsolete spelling of cyma. [18th century]

• mica, CMIA, aMCI, -amic, ACMI, cami, amic, Maci, Mica, iMac, -icam

cima

1. (interrogative) who

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

Inherited from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsi.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsi.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima

cima f (plural cimes)

1. summit, peak

   Synonym: cim

• “cima”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cima” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cima, from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “I am pregnant, conceive”).

• Rhymes: -ima
• Hyphenation: ci‧ma

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top, peak, summit

   Synonyms: cume, cumio

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cima”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cima”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cima”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cima”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cima”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Hyphenation: cì‧ma

From Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma).

cima f (plural cime)

1. top
2. peak, spur
3. summit
4. (nautical) hawser, line, rope, cable

• cimare
• cimette

• → Tunisian Arabic: شيما (šīma, “hawser, line, rope”)^[1]

cima

1. inflection of cimare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• cami, mica

From Old Galician-Portuguese cima, from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “to be pregnant, conceive”).

• Hyphenation: ci‧ma

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top, summit

• IPA^(key): /t͡si.ˈma/, [t͡ɕi.ˈma]

cima

1. (interrogative) who

From Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek. Compare Italian cima.

cima f (plural cimi)

1. peak, summit (highest place)

   pigghiari li cimi d'àrvulu ― to get angry, furious; to see red (literally, “to take the tree's peaks”)

   di cima 'n funnu ― from top to bottom

   a li cimi cimi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. genius (someone excellent in a given field)
3. (winemaking) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “cima”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 854
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cima”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 319
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cìma”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 173

-címa

1. to extinguish, to switch off

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθima/ [ˈθi.ma] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsima/ [ˈsi.ma] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ci‧ma
• Homophone: (Latin America) sima

Inherited from Old Spanish cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout, hollow sphere”) (compare French cime (“peak, summit, top of a tree”), Italian cima (“top, peak, summit”), Portuguese cima (“top”), Romanian ciumă (“plague, pestilence”)), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “to be pregnant, to conceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top

   en la cima del mundo ― on top of the world

2. peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill)

   Synonyms: cumbre, pico

3. (botany) cyme

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cima

1. inflection of cimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

-címa

1. to put out, to turn off the light

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• chima

-cima (infinitive kucima)

1. to prophesy (especially in a trance where one gets in touch with departed spirits)

• ncimi

• William Y. Turner (1996) Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[2], Central Africana Limited, pages 16, 242

From Arabic جِمَاع (jimāʕ).

• Hyphenation: ci‧ma

cima (definite accusative cimayı, plural cimalar)

1. (dated) sexual intercourse

• “cima”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

-cîma

1. (transitive) to extinguish

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

-címa

1. (transitive) to extinguish (fire), to put out (light), to quench
2. (transitive) to assuage (thirst etc.)
3. (transitive) to switch off, to turn off

   Synonym: -cisha

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “cima”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “cima (3.9)”