cume
English edit
Etymology edit
From cumulative; compare cumulate.
Verb edit
cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)
- (film) Earn cumulatively at the box office.
- 2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014:
- Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S[sic] in its 2011 release.
- 2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014:
Usage notes edit
Particularly in past or perfect forms, as “cumed” or “has cumed”, since “cumulative box office receipts” is primarily a backwards-looking concept.
Noun edit
cume (plural cumes)
- (film) Cumulative box office receipts.
- 2014, Justin Chang, Variety, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, November 4, 2014:
- With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.
- 2017, Mark Hughes, 'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie[1]:
- Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.
- 2014, Justin Chang, Variety, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, November 4, 2014:
- (radio, television) Cumulative audience.
- 2004, Steve Warren, Radio:
- Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers.
- 2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies
- If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.
- (education) Cumulative grade point average.
- 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22:
- The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall,
And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.
Adjective edit
cume (not comparable)
- (film) Cumulative.
- 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
- Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...
- 2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media:
- Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.
- 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Noun edit
cume m (plural cumes)
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
15th century. From Latin culmen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Cognate with Portuguese cume and Spanish cumbre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cume m (plural cumes)
- mountain top, summit
- Synonym: cumio
- ridge, roof top
- 1433, Rodríguez González, Ángel / José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 63:
- a qual casa se ten por parede con outra casa de Juan Peres, notario da dita villa, de hũa parte, da outra parta se ten por cume et tavoado con outra mia casa
- the aforementioned house is next to the wall of another one that belongs to Juan Perez, notary of this town, in one side, and in the other is touching, by the ridge and the wooden wall, with another house of my property
- 1433, Rodríguez González, Ángel / José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 63:
- ridge board
- 1457, Tato Plaza, Fernando R. (ed.) (1999): Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega (Ponencia de Lingua)., page 185:
- Jtem diso máis que leuara de dentro da grãja de Saar, estando presente Martj́n de Dorrõ, hũu cume de castaño de des cóuodos, pouco máis o menos
- Item, he said more, that he had taken from the inside of the farm of Sar, in the presence of Martín de Dorrón, a chestnut ridge board, of some ten cubits long, give or take
- 1457, Tato Plaza, Fernando R. (ed.) (1999): Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega (Ponencia de Lingua)., page 185:
- top position
- summit (gathering of leathers, etc)
- Synonym: cumio
Derived terms edit
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References edit
- “cume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cume” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cume” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cume” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Istriot edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *quomo (from Latin quomōdo) + et. Compare Italian come, French comme, Romanian cum.
Adverb edit
cume
- 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 edit
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *kūmo, from Proto-Germanic *kūmô.
Adverb edit
cume
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “cume”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “cume”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Old English edit
Verb edit
cume
- inflection of cuman:
Old French edit
Conjunction edit
cume
- Alternative form of conme
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin culmen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cu‧me
Noun edit
cume m (plural cumes)