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名詞

gumme (plural gummes)

1. Obsolete form of gum (“sticky substance”).
   • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 75:

     The gumme (Myrrhe) is given in Physick and medecines for woemens diseases.

語源 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gume, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin gummi, cummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy, qmyt.