theme

English

/θiːm/

noun
Definitions
  • A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
  • A recurring idea; a motif.
  • (dated) An essay written for school.
  • (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
  • (film) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
  • (computing) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
  • (grammar) The stem of a word.
  • (linguistics) thematic thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
  • (linguistics) theta Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
  • (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
  • A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

Etymology

Derived from Middle English teme (folk) derived from Old French teme derived from Latin thema derived from Ancient Greek θέμα (theme) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make), *dʰeh₁- (put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰeh₁-

Gloss

put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

哺

Emoji

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