teme

Blend of technological +‎ meme; introduced by Susan Blackmore in 2008.

teme (plural temes)

1. A meme which lives in a technological artifact rather than the human mind.

• etem, meet, mete, teem

teme

1. Obsolete spelling of temeh.

From Latin timēre, present active infinitive of timeō.

teme

1. fear

teme

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of temen

teme

1. inflection of temer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.me/, /ˈtɛ.me/
• Rhymes: -eme, -ɛme
• Hyphenation: té‧me, tè‧me

teme

1. third-person singular present indicative of temere

• mete

teme

1. Rōmaji transcription of てめ

Borrowed from Old French teme, tesme, from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• teeme, theme, tyme

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːm(ə)/

teme (plural temes)

2. topic, focus, matter
3. document, text

• English: theme
• Scots: theme (obsolete)

• “tēme, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

teme

1. Alternative form of tem (“group”)

teme

1. (Northern) Alternative form of tyme (“time”)

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to give birth, to support”)

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to drain, to empty”)

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to tame”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː.me/

tēme

1. inflection of tēman:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

• Hyphenation: te‧me

teme

1. inflection of temer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.me/
• Rhymes: -eme
• Hyphenation: te‧me

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Inherited from Latin timēre, present active infinitive of timeō, through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *tīmĕre.

a teme (third-person singular present teme, past participle temut) 3rd conjugation

1. (reflexive) to fear

• temere

• teamă
• teamăt
• temoare

Inflected form of temă.

teme f

1. inflection of temă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

• tjȅme (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *těmę.

• IPA^(key): /tême/
• Hyphenation: te‧me

tȅme n (Cyrillic spelling те̏ме)

1. top, crown (of the head)
2. top, apex

teme (Cyrillic spelling теме)

1. inflection of tema:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈteme/ [ˈt̪e.me]
• Rhymes: -eme
• Syllabification: te‧me

Borrowed from English teme.

teme m (plural temes)

1. teme (technological meme)

teme

1. inflection of temar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

teme

1. inflection of temer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “teme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

teme

1. plural of tietetu

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mɛ/

teme

1. tapir, Tapirus terrestris

• E. Ireland field notes, confirmed with Piitsa, Muri, and other elders (all experienced hunters) in 1982 using José Cândido de Melo Carvalho's Atlas da Fauna Brasileira, Edições Melhoramentos, São Paulo, 1981.