cummis

Latin

Alternative forms

• gummis, commis, cummi, gummi, commi

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), borrowed from Egyptian qmy or qmyt.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊm.mɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkum.mis]

Noun

cummis f (genitive cummis or cummeos); third declension

1. gum

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	cummis	cummēs
genitive	cummis cummeos	cummium
dative	cummī	cummibus
accusative	cummim	cummēs cummīs
ablative	cummī	cummibus
vocative	cummis	cummēs

Derived terms

• gumma (Late Latin and New Latin)

Descendants

From Late Latin: gumma, gomma

• > Anglo-Norman: gume (inherited)
  • Middle English: gumme, gomme, gome, gume, gum, gom
    • English: gum
      • → Welsh: gwm
      • → Korean: 껌 (kkeom)
    • → Irish: guma
    • Scots: gum
• > Catalan: goma (inherited)
• → English: gumma
• > Old French: gomme (inherited)
  • French: gomme
    • → Romanian: gumă
    • → Vietnamese: gôm
  • → Middle Dutch: gomme
    • Dutch: gom, gum
      • Afrikaans: gom
      • → Indonesian: gom
      • → Japanese: ゴム
        • → Korean: 고무 (gomu)
      • → Makasar: hong (“eraser”)
      • → Papiamentu: gòm, gom
• > Italian: gomma (inherited)
• > Lombard: goma (inherited)
• > Sicilian: gumma (inherited)
• > Spanish: goma (inherited)
  • → Cebuano: goma
  • → Ilocano: goma
  • → Maguindanao: guma
  • → Tagalog: goma
  • → Tausug: guma

From Late Latin: gummi

• → Old Danish: gumi
  • Danish: gummi
• → Middle High German: gummi
  • German: Gummi

References

• “gummi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cummi”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.