noun, feminine/ˈθima/plural: cimas
top; peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill); cyme
“en la cima del mundo” — on top of the world
Synonyms: cumbre, pico
Inherited from Old Spanish cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout, hollow sphere”) (compare French cime (“peak, summit, top of a tree”), Italian cima (“top, peak, summit”), Portuguese cima (“top”), Romanian ciumă (“plague, pestilence”)), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “to be pregnant, to conceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).