cume

Etymology

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

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.
   • 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.

Noun

cume (plural cumes)

1. (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:

     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.

2. (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.

3. (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

cume (not comparable)

1. (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.

See also

• box office

Anagrams

• muce

Noun

cume m (plural cumes)

1. summit

Alternative forms

• crume

Etymology

15th century. From Latin culmen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Cognate with Portuguese cume and Spanish cumbre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkume̝/

Noun

cume m (plural cumes)

1. mountain top, summit

   Synonym: cumio

2. 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

   Synonyms: cima, cumio

3. 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

   Synonyms: crucel, cumio

4. top position

   Synonyms: cima, cúspide

5. summit (gathering of leathers, etc)

   Synonym: cumio

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cume”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cume”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cume”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kūmo, from Proto-Germanic *kūmô.

Adverb

cume

1. barely, only just
2. almost, nearly

Further reading

• “cume”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “cume”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Verb

cume

1. inflection of cuman:
   1. subjunctive present singular
   2. imperative singular

Conjunction

cume

1. Alternative form of conme

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin culmen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cu‧me

Noun

cume m (plural cumes)

1. peak, the highest point of a mountain

   Synonyms: cimo, sumo, pico