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cima

cima is the obsolete spelling of cyma.

Meaning of cyma

Noun

cyma (plural cymas or cymae or cymæ or cymata)

  1. The wavelike, curved shape of a cymatium, consisting of a concave and a convex line; (loosely) the cymatium itself.
    • […] while the double-cyma or classical curve of his mouth was not without a looseness in its close.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    ogee
  2. A cyme (opening bud).

Proper noun (1) capitalized: CIMA

CIMA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, organisation) Initialism of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Cima

Cima (plural Cimas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of cima

pluralCimas

Origin of cima

Borrowed from Italian Cima.

Questions about cima

What does cima mean?
Cima means a surname from Italian.
What is cima the obsolete spelling of?
Cima is the obsolete spelling of cyma.
What part of speech is cima?
Cima is a proper noun.

Words near cima in the dictionary

  1. ciluprevir
  2. Cilybebyll
  3. Cilycwm
  4. Cilymaenllwyd
  5. CIM
  6. cima
  7. Cimahi
  8. Cimambwe
  9. cimar
  10. cimarin
  11. cimarron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cima (page history and authors); CIMA (page history and authors); Cima (page history and authors); cyma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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