Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

spuma

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: spumã and spumă

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin spūma.

Noun

spuma f (plural spume)

  1. foam
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

spuma

  1. inflection of spumare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Related to pūmex.

Pronunciation

Noun

spūma f (genitive spūmae); first declension

  1. foam, froth, slime

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Descendants

Note: many of the descendant terms were merged with Latin scuma.

References

  • “spuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “spuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “spuma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “spuma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Remove ads

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin spūmāre or from spumă. Compare Aromanian spumedz, spumari, Italian spumare, spumeggiare, Spanish espumar, espumear.

Verb

a spuma (third-person singular present spumează, past participle spumat) 1st conjugation

  1. to foam, froth
    Synonym: spumega

Conjugation

    conjugation of spuma (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
More information infinitive, gerund ...

Derived terms

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads
Remove ads