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

Latin

Alternative forms
  • schuma

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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