écume
See also: écumé
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French écume, escume, from Old French escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), possibly via Vulgar Latin *scūma (compare Medieval Latin scuma), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”). Compare the rare Old French espume (“foam”), from Latin spūma (“foam, froth, slime”), which some sources hypothesise may have merged with or influenced the Germanic term, though there is no evidence to this effect.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
écume f (plural écumes)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
écume
- inflection of écumer:
Further reading edit
- “écume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.