escuma

Catalan

Etymology 1

Probably blend of Latin spūma and a Germanic skum, from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz. Compare Galician escuma, French écume.

Alternative forms

• espuma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈku.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈku.ma]

Noun

escuma f (plural escumes)

1. foam, froth, lather

   Synonyms: escumera, bromera

2. (metallurgy) scum
3. (figurative) scum

Derived terms

• escumadora
• escumall
• escumar
• escumejar
• escumera
• escumós

Further reading

• “escuma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escuma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “escuma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escuma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

escuma

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

Galician

Etymology

Probably blend of Latin spūma and a Germanic skum, from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz. Compare Catalan escuma, French écume.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkuma̝/

Noun

escuma f (plural escumas)

1. foam
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana:

     Et el deytaua da boca hũa escuma que semellaua chama, et o sseu bafo semellaua que queymaua o ayro.

     He ejected from his mouth a foam that looked as a flame, and his breath appeared to burn the air

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escuma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escuma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escuma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escuma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin spūma, influenced by Frankish *skūm.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

escuma f (plural escumas)

1. foam

Related terms

• escumar
• escumós
• escumada
• escumèra

Dialectal variants

• escruma (Languedoc)
• grama (Gascony)
• gruma (Languedoc, Auvergne)
• espuma (Gascony)