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cima

Signification (Anglais)

cimar

to crop; to cut shorter (removing the top)

Fréquence

B2
Coupé comme
ci‧ma
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈθima/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

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”).

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