Noun: fume
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fume |
| Plural m | fumes |
Sample Sentences
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coyda que o bafo et fume daquel fogo que ensuzou et [empoçoou] as agoas et aterra daly (he thinks that the fumes and the smoke of that fire defiled and poisoned the waters and the soil there) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 209:]
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1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 326 (the life in this world is like the shadow, and when a man delight in it is like the smoke, which soon goes away)
Nouns inflected like fume
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese fumo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fūmus, although the final vowel could imply an Old French borrowing. Cognate with Portuguese fumo and Spanish humo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
fumo', Latin Nouns '
fūmus', Portuguese Nouns '
fumo', Spanish Nouns '
humo'.
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