spuma

From Latin spūma.

spuma f (plural spume)

1. foam

• spumante
• spumeggiare

• schiuma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

spuma

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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspuː.ma/, [ˈs̠puːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspu.ma/, [ˈspuːmä]

spūma f (genitive spūmae); first declension

1. foam, froth, slime

First-declension noun.

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

• “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

Inherited from Latin spūmāre, present active infinitive of spūmō or from spumă. Compare Aromanian spumedz, spumari, Italian spumare, spumeggiare, Spanish espumar, espumear.

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

1. to foam, froth

   Synonym: spumega

• spumare