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

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-tédam.

teme

1. to stand

teme

1. obsolete spelling of temeh

From Latin timēre.

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 Bangi teme.

teme

1. to stop, to stand

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 25 April 2018.

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

• теме (teme) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.me/

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• Rhymes: -eme
• Hyphenation: te‧me

Inherited from Latin timēre, through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *tīmĕre.

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

1. (reflexive) to fear [with de]

• temere

• teamă
• teamăt
• temoare

Inflected form of temă.

teme f

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

• “teme”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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.