different between mauma vs cauma

English

Noun

mauma (plural maumas)

1. (African-American Vernacular) mother
2. (African-American Vernacular) A title of respect for an elderly woman

Related terms

• maum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cauma (“heat”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”). Probably a doublet of calm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??m?/

Noun

cauma

1. Great heat, as of the body in fever.

Anagrams

• Cà Mau, Macau

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kau?.ma/, [?käu?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kau?.ma/, [?k??u?m?]

Noun

cauma n (genitive caumatis); third declension

1. heat
2. (by extension) heat of the day

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Related terms

• cynocauma
• caum?

Descendants

• English: cauma, calm
• Spanish: calma
• Italian: calma

References

• cauma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cauma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cauma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette