name
Meaning 1
A surname from Dutch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
stum
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/stʌm/
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CMU ARPABET: S T AH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Unfermented grape juice; must.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Examples
- 1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
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noun
Meaning 3
Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 4
To ferment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch Stum.
From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: щира (štira) — Unfermented grape juice.