chema

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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).

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

From Latin clāmāre, present active infinitive of clāmō, 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) 1st conj.

1. to call

• striga

• chemare
• chemat
• chemător

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃema/ [ˈt͡ʃe.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: che‧ma

chema f (plural chemas)

1. (Costa Rica) T-shirt

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:camiseta

chema

1. Ki class inflected form of -ema.