reume
English
Noun
reume (plural reumes)
- Obsolete form of realm.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Middle English
Noun
reume
- Alternative form of rewme
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rheuma.
Noun
reume f (oblique plural reumes, nominative singular reume, nominative plural reumes)
- mucus
Descendants
- English: rheum (borrowed)
- French: rhume
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (reume)
- reume on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub