scuma
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
From Latin scuma via English scum, French écume, Portuguese escuma, and Italian schiuma.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scuma (uncountable)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Frankish *skūm (“foam”), perhaps via an earlier Vulgar Latin *scūma.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsku.ma/, [ˈs̠kʊmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsku.ma/, [ˈskuːmä]
Noun edit
scuma f (genitive scumae); first declension[1]
Declension edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- Old French: escume, eschume
- Italian: schiuma
- Neapolitan scumma
- Old Galician-Portuguese: escuma
- Old Occitan: escuma
- Piedmontese: scuma
- Sicilian: scuma
References edit
- ^ 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)