A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Cyma,-ae (s.f.I), also cyma,-atis (s.n.III), abl.sg. cymate > Gk. kyma: (in classical Latin) “the spring shoots of a cabbage or similar vegetable” (Glare); note the ‘a’ is an alpha (not eta); see cyme (Eng.noun); see cym-, cymo-: in Gk. comp.; cf. unda,-ae (s.f.I) [> L. cyma,-ae (s.f.I) young sprout of cabbage, > Gk. kyma, wave, young sprout, fetus, anything swollen, > kyein, to be pregnant, after WIII];see cyme (Eng.noun).

Gk. kyma (s.f.I), ‘wave,’ from kyein, to swell, 'in botany, a cyme;’ cyme > Gk. kyma, fetus, a young sprout, from kyein, to swell (note the ‘a’ is an alpha (not an eta);' kyma,-atos (s.n.III) in Gk. combines both meanings in 'anything swollen, the swell of the sea, a wave, billow, surge. also, 'the foetus in the womb, embryo;’ kyma (s.f.I) “the spring shoots of a cabbage or similar vegetable” (Glare), “the young sprout of plants, esp. of a cabbage (Liddell & Scott).

Cymophyllus (Cyperacese): “name from the Greek ‘cyma,’ a wave, and ‘phyllon,’ leaf, from the minutely undulate leaf-margin” (Fernald 1950).

Cymopterus Raf. > Gk. cyma, a wave, and pteron, “a wing, referring to the often undulate wings" (Fernald 1950).