different between fumer vs fumet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju?m?(r)/
• Rhymes: -u?m?(r)

Noun

fumer (plural fumers)

1. One who makes or uses perfumes.
2. That which fumes, something that produces or emits smoke or other vapor.

Anagrams

• femur

French

Etymology

From Middle French fumer, from Old French, from Latin f?m?re, present active infinitive of f?m?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.me/

Verb

fumer

1. (transitive, intransitive) to smoke
2. (intransitive) to emit smoke
3. (intransitive) to steam
   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, ?ISBN, p. 164

     J'en ressortais vers six heures, léger, lavé jusqu'à l'âme et fumant dans le froid comme un torchon mouillé.

     — I would re-emerge at about six o'clock, light and clean right through to the spirit, and steaming in the cold like a damp dishcloth. — 1992, Robyn Marsack (trans.), The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, ?ISBN

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• fumet
• fumeux
• fumiste

Further reading

• “fumer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• fémur

Latin

Verb

f?mer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of f?m?

Middle French

Verb

fumer

1. to smoke (cook using smoke)

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

English

Etymology 1

From the French fumet (“aroma”), from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Doublet of fumetto.

Noun

fumet (countable and uncountable, plural fumets)

1. A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
2. A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
3. Alternative form of fumette (stench or high flavour of meat)

Etymology 2

Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum (“dung”). See fewmet.

Noun

fumet

1. The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.

References

• fumet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• The Larousse Gastronomique
• Fumet, die.net.

French

Etymology

From fumer + -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.m?/

Noun

fumet m (plural fumets)

1. aroma, odor (of meat etc.); bouquet (of wine)
2. (hunting) scent

References

• fumet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• The Larousse Gastronomique
• Fumet, die.net.

Further reading

• “fumet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

f?met

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of f?m?