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Alemannic German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German kweman, chuman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną. Cognate with German kommen, Dutch komen, English come, Icelandic koma, Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (qiman).
Verb
cheme
- (Carcoforo) to come
References
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χήμη (khḗmē).
Pronunciation
Noun
chēmē f (genitive chēmēs); first declension
- A measure for liquids, the third part of a mystrum
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
References
- “cheme”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cheme in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cheme”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cheme”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
cheme
- third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of chema