chema

From Latin gemma.

chema f (plural chemas)

1. bud

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “chema”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χήμη (khḗmē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰeː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛː.ma]

chēma f (genitive chēmae); first declension

1. A gaping mussel, a cockle

First-declension noun.

• “chema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “chema”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Inherited from Latin clāmāre, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”). Compare Aromanian cljem, cljimari, Italian chiamare, Neapolitan chiammà. Doublet of clama, which was borrowed from French.

• IPA^(key): /keˈma/

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a chema (third-person singular present cheamă, past participle chemat, third-person subjunctive cheme) 1st conjugation

1. to call

   Synonym: striga

• chemare
• chemat
• chemător

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃema/ [ˈt͡ʃe.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: che‧ma

chema f (plural chemas)

1. (Costa Rica) T-shirt

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:camiseta

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chema

1. ki class_(VII) inflected form of -ema