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English

Etymology

From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?m/

Noun

stum (countable and uncountable, plural stums)

1. (obsolete) Unfermented grape juice; must.
   • 1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales

     Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.

   • 1682, John Dryden, The Medal

     And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.

2. (obsolete) Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.

Verb

stum (third-person singular simple present stums, present participle stumming, simple past and past participle stummed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To ferment.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
   • 1696, John Floyer, The praeternatural State of animal Hurnours described by their sensible Qualities

     We stum our crude wines […] to renew their spirits.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.

References

• stum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• MTUs, UMTS, must, smut, tums

Danish

Adjective

stum (neuter stumt, plural and definite singular attributive stumme)

1. mute, not possessing the ability of speech
2. temporarily unable to speak due to strong emotion
3. not involving speech

Latvian

Verb

stum

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of stumt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of stumt

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

stum

1. mute; unable to speak

Related terms

• stumhet
• stumfilm

Anagrams

• must, tums

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• hrif

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hrif (“guts, belly”). Compare Old English hrif (“stomach”).

Noun

href n

1. body
2. womb
3. belly