scuma

From Latin scuma via English scum, French écume, Portuguese escuma, and Italian schiuma.

• IPA^(key): /skum/, [skʊm]

scuma (uncountable)

1. foam, scum

• schuma

From Frankish *skūm (“foam”), perhaps via an earlier Vulgar Latin *scūma.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskʊ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskuː.ma]

scuma f (genitive scumae); first declension^[1]

1. (Medieval Latin) foam, froth

First-declension noun.

• spūma