English Explanatory Dictionary

spumous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. frothy or foamy; spumy

Pronunciation

/ˈspjuːməs/

Word forms

spumous more spumous most spumous

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)poH(y)- Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os Latin spūma Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Latin -ōsus Latin spūmōsusbor. Middle English spumous English spumous From Middle English spumous, from Latin spūmōsus.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary