cima
Meaning
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- (feminine) top
- (feminine) peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill)
Concepts
upper part
racemose corymb
boils sens de bouillir
see dar cima a
compound umbel
mountain peak
Synonyms
parte superior
escarabajo lanudo
parte de más arriba
nivel máximo
nivel más alto
parte exterior
cumbre de la montaña
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ci‧ma
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈθima/
Etymology
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”).
New
cimar
to crop; to cut shorter (removing the top)
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