cymatium

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

cymatium (plural cymatiums or cymatia)

1. (architecture) A molding on the cornice.
2. (architecture) A type of molding that is wavelike in form.

• cūmatium
• cȳmation

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kyːˈma.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈmat̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]

cȳmatium n (genitive cȳmatiī or cȳmatī); second declension

1. (architecture) The volute of an Ionic column
2. (architecture) A channel, a waved molding, an ogee

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• French: cimaise
• Italian: cimasa

• “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