fleume
Middle English
editNoun
editfleume
- Alternative form of flewme
Old French
editEtymology
editLatin phlegma < Ancient Greek φλέγμα (phlégma).
Noun
editfleume oblique singular, f (oblique plural fleumes, nominative singular fleume, nominative plural fleumes)
- phlegm (one of the four elements of the body)
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
- Item on peult demander se la fleume se peult adurcir
- One can ask oneself if the phlegm will harden