cimera

From cimer +‎ -a. The sense of "summit" is a clipping of reunió cimera (“summit meeting”). The sense of "crest" may derive from Latin Chimaera with influence from cimer, making this term a doublet of quimera.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [siˈme.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [siˈme.ɾa]

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cimera f sg

1. feminine singular of cimer

cimera f (plural cimeres)

1. summit (meeting)

   La Cimera Iberoamericana ― The Ibero-American Summit

2. (heraldry) crest
3. (zoology) poll (top of the head of a horned animal)

   Synonym: tos

• “cimera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cimera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cimera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /θiˈmeɾa/ [θiˈme.ɾa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /siˈmeɾa/ [siˈme.ɾa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ci‧me‧ra

cimera f (plural cimeras)

1. decorated crest of a medieval helm
2. (heraldry) crest

cimera f sg

1. feminine singular of cimero

• “cimera”, 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

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