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cima.

top

4 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈθima/[ˈθi.ma]/ˈsima/[ˈsi.ma]
  1. top

    feminine
    en la cima del mundo
  2. peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill)

    feminine
  3. cyme

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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”).

verb/ˈθima/[ˈθi.ma]/ˈsima/[ˈsi.ma]
  1. inflection of cimar: third-person singular present indicative

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

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
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