cymae

See also: cymæ

English

Pronunciation

Noun

cymae pl

  1. plural of cyma
    • 1905, American Journal of Archaeology, page 76:
      Acanthus blossoms, drying like immortelles, “bloom continually” (Hellanicus, ap. Athen. XV, 680 a). Therefore carved acanthus garlands adorn the Erechtheum, while the plant is carved on cymae, stelae-acroteria (Conze, Attische Grabreliefs, pl. clxv) and antefixes (Lycian Payava Tomb), and is sketched from life on white Athenian lecythi (Brit. Mus. Coll. pl. xiv), which, conventionalized, it constantly encircles.

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Latin

Noun

cȳmae

  1. inflection of cȳma:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive/dative singular
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