scuma

scuma

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin scuma via English scum, French écume, Portuguese escuma, and Italian schiuma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skum/, [skʊm]

Noun

scuma (uncountable)

1. foam, scum

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Latin

Alternative forms

• schuma

Etymology

From Frankish *skūm (“foam”), perhaps via an earlier Vulgar Latin *scūma.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsku.ma/, [ˈs̠kʊmä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsku.ma/, [ˈskuːmä]

Noun

scuma f (genitive scumae); first declension[1]

1. (Medieval Latin) foam, froth

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scuma	scumae
Genitive	scumae	scumārum
Dative	scumae	scumīs
Accusative	scumam	scumās
Ablative	scumā	scumīs
Vocative	scuma	scumae

Synonyms

• spūma

Descendants

• Old French: escume, eschume
  • Middle French: escume, écume
    • French: écume
  • Picard: èsceûme (Athois)
  • Walloon: scume (Charleroi), chume (Forrières)
• Italian: schiuma
• Neapolitan scumma
• Old Portuguese: escuma
  • Portuguese: escuma
  • Galician: escuma
• Old Occitan: escuma
  • Catalan: escuma
  • Occitan: escuma
• Piedmontese: scuma

References

1. scuma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)