gumma
noun
gumma is a noun meaning “a soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-U-M-M-A, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gumma is gummas or gummata.
What does gumma mean?
noun
- 1
a soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gumma
- gummas plural
- gummata plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gumma?
Gumma appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does gumma come from?
Borrowed from New Latin gumma, extended in meaning from Late Latin gumma (“gum, resin”), a late form of cummis, cummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), of Egyptian origin. Doublet of gum (Etymology 2).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).