celeuma

celeuma n (genitive celeumatis); third declension

1. Alternative form of celeusma

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

• “celeuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• celeuma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• celeuma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin celeuma, alternative form of celeusma (“a call given by the stroke to other oarsmen to keep time”), from Ancient Greek κέλευσμα (kéleusma, “order, command”). Cognate with Italian ciurma.

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• Hyphenation: ce‧leu‧ma

celeuma f (plural celeumas)

1. sea shanty
2. work song
3. racket (loud noise)