Exume
/ɪɡˈzjuːm/noun
An archaic variant of exhume, meaning to remove a buried body or object from the ground.
Did you know?Exume is an obsolete English variant of exhume, whose Latin ancestor combined ex- (“out of”) with humus (“earth” or “soil”).
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dʰǵʰem-
“Earth or ground”
Classical Latin
Latin
humus
“Earth, soil, or ground”
Late Latin
Latin
exhumare
“To take out of the earth”
Middle English
English
exhume
“To dig up from burial”
16th–17th Century
English
exume
“An obsolete variant spelling of exhume”
Modern English
English
exhume
“To remove a buried body or object from the ground”