Definitions for Cyma

Cyma cy·ma

Spelling: [sahy-muh]
IPA: /ˈsaɪ mə/

Cyma is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Cyma (acmy).

Definitions for Cyma

noun

  1. Architecture. either of two moldings having a partly convex and partly concave curve for an outline: used especially in classical architecture. Compare cyma recta, cyma reversa.
  2. Botany. a cyme.

Origin of Cyma

1555-65; New Latin Greek kŷma something swollen, a wave, wavy molding, sprout, equivalent to ký(ein) to be pregnant + -ma noun suffix

Examples for Cyma

The parapet above, including its cyma and corona, is one half the height of the parapet below.

The Doric cyma is commonly called the beak-moulding, the Lesbian cyma the cyma reversa.

The cornice is of grey marble with a 'cyma recta' section, and is carved with an upright leaf.

When the crowning moulding of an entablature is of the cyma form, it is called a “cymatium.”

The corona is bordered by the so-called Doric cyma, or beak-moulding, distantly resembling the scotia of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The members of the entablature are exceedingly high and heavy, as are the details, down to the trunnels and cyma.

Word Value for Cyma
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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