écume

Inherited from Middle French écume, escume, from Old French escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), possibly via Vulgar Latin *scūma (compare Medieval Latin scuma), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”). Compare the rare Old French espume (“foam”), from Latin spūma (“foam, froth, slime”), which some sources hypothesise may have merged with or influenced the Germanic term, though there is no evidence to this effect.

• IPA^(key): /e.kym/

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écume f (plural écumes)

1. foam

• écume de mer
• écumer
• écumeux

écume

1. inflection of écumer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “écume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.