escume
Middle French
Alternative forms
- écume
Noun
escume f (plural escumes)
- foam
Verb
escume
- first-person singular present indicative of escumer
- third-person singular present indicative of escumer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of escumer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of escumer
- second-person singular imperative of escumer
Descendants
- French: écume
Old French
Alternative forms
- eschume
Etymology
From Medieval Latin scūma, merger of spūma (“foam”) and Frankish *skūm (“foam”).
Noun
escume f (oblique plural escumes, nominative singular escume, nominative plural escumes)
- foam
Descendants
- Middle French: escume, écume
- French: écume
- → Middle English: scome, scume (partially from Middle Dutch schūme)
- English: scum
- Picard: èsceûme (Athois)
- Walloon: scume (Charleroi), chume (Forrières)