different between strum vs struma

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms

• strummer

Translations

Noun

strum (plural strums)

1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
2. The act of strumming.

Anagrams

• turms

English

Etymology

From Latin str?ma.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st?u?m?/

Noun

struma (countable and uncountable, plural strumas or strumae)

1. (pathology) Scrofula.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 186:

     This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.

2. (pathology) A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. struma

Latin

Etymology

From stru?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?stru?.ma/, [?s?(t?)?u?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?stru.ma/, [?st??u?m?]

Noun

str?ma f (genitive str?mae); first declension

1. a scrofulous tumor, struma

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• struma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• struma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• struma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• struma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, indefinite plural strumaer, definite plural strumaene)

1. (pathology) a goitre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, uncountable)

1. (pathology) a goitre

Venetian

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. effort, toil