spumous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English spumous, from Latin spūmōsus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
spumous (comparative more spumous, superlative most spumous)
- frothy or foamy; spumy
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:
- The spumous and florid State which the Blood acquires in passing through the Lungs.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin spūmōsus; equivalent to spume + -ous.
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spumous
Descendants edit
- English: spumous
References edit
- “spūmǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.