Spumous
/ˈspjuː.məs/noun
Full of or covered with froth or foam.
Did you know?Spumous comes from the same ancient root behind English words like foam and spume, and it was used in learned writing to describe anything frothy, airy, or foam-covered.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*spew-
“to spit, spew, or foam”
Latin
Latin
spuma
“foam, froth”
Late Latin
Latin
spumosus
“foamy, full of foam”
Middle English
English
spumous
“foamy; frothy”
Modern English
English
spumous
“full of or covered with froth or foam”
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