Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. · Any precious or highly valued thing or person. · Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. · Internet content of good quality.
To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.
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