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cume

cume

English

Verb

cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)

  1. (film) Earn cumulatively at the box office.

Usage notes

Particularly in past or perfect forms, as “cumed” or “has cumed”, since “cumulative box office receipts” is primarily a backwards-looking concept.

Noun

cume (plural cumes)

  1. (film) Cumulative box office receipts.

See also


Istriot

Alternative forms

  • coûme

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *quomo (from Latin quomōdo) + et. Compare Italian come, French comme, Romanian cum.

Adverb

cume

  1. how
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:
      Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!
      How they row well on the high seas!

See also

  • cumo

Old English

Verb

cume

  1. Subjunctive present singular form of cuman
  2. Imperative singular form of cuman

Old French

Conjunction

cume

  1. Alternative form of conme

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin culmen.

Noun

cume m (plural cumes)

  1. peak, the highest point of a mountain.