cumulus

cumulus

English

A cumulus cloud.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs/

  • Audio (southern England)

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• Rhymes: -uːmjələs
• Hyphenation: cu‧mu‧lus

Noun

cumulus (plural cumuli)

1. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
   • 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,

     Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

2. A mound or heap.

Derived terms

• cumulus oophorus
• roll cumulus

 

Translations

white puffy cloud

Bulgarian: кълбест облак m (kǎlbest oblak) Catalan: cúmul (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 積雲, 积云 (zik1wan4) Mandarin: 積雲／积云 (zh) (jīyún) Dutch: stapelwolk (nl) m or f Finnish: kumpupilvi (fi) German: Quellwolke (de) f, Haufenwolke (de) f, Kumuluswolke f, Kumulus m, Cumulus (de) m Hungarian: gomolyfelhő (hu), kumulusz (hu) Italian: cumulo (it) m Japanese: 積雲 (せきうん, sekiun) Latin: cumulus m, nubes cumula f, Latvian: gubu mākonis Macedonian: кумулус m (kumulus) Maori: kapua whakapipi, kappa taipua, taipua Portuguese: cúmulo (pt) m Polish: obłok (pl) Romanian: cumulus (ro) m Russian: кучевое (kučevoje) облако (ru) (oblako) Spanish: cúmulo (es) m Swedish: cumulusmoln (sv) n Tagalog: buntuning alapaap

mound or heap

Bulgarian: куп (bg) m (kup), купчина (bg) f (kupčina) Finnish: kasa (fi) Japanese: 堆積 (ja) (たいせき, taiseki) Portuguese: cúmulo (pt) m, acúmulo (pt) m, monte (pt) m, pilha (pt) f

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Italian: cumulo (it) m (1,2)

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumulus/, [ˈkumulus̠]
• Syllabification^(key): cu‧mu‧lus

Noun

cumulus

1. cumulus (cloud)

Declension

Inflection of cumulus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		cumulus	cumulukset
genitive		cumuluksen	cumulusten cumuluksien
partitive		cumulusta	cumuluksia
illative		cumulukseen	cumuluksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		cumulus	cumulukset
accusative	nom.	cumulus	cumulukset
	gen.	cumuluksen
genitive		cumuluksen	cumulusten cumuluksien
partitive		cumulusta	cumuluksia
inessive		cumuluksessa	cumuluksissa
elative		cumuluksesta	cumuluksista
illative		cumulukseen	cumuluksiin
adessive		cumuluksella	cumuluksilla
ablative		cumulukselta	cumuluksilta
allative		cumulukselle	cumuluksille
essive		cumuluksena	cumuluksina
translative		cumulukseksi	cumuluksiksi
instructive		—	cumuluksin
abessive		cumuluksetta	cumuluksitta
comitative		—	cumuluksineen

Possessive forms of cumulus (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	cumulukseni	cumuluksemme
2nd person	cumuluksesi	cumuluksenne
3rd person	cumuluksensa

Synonyms

• cumuluspilvi
• kumpupilvi

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French

Noun

cumulus m (plural cumulus)

1. cumulus

Further reading

• “cumulus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ku-m-olo, from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”); see also Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), Ancient Greek κύω (kúō), and Sanskrit श्वयति (śvayati, “swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkʊmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkuːmulus]

Noun

cumulus m (genitive cumulī); second declension

1. heap, pile

   Synonyms: acervus, moles, massa

2. surplus
3. summit

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cumulus	cumulī
Genitive	cumulī	cumulōrum
Dative	cumulō	cumulīs
Accusative	cumulum	cumulōs
Ablative	cumulō	cumulīs
Vocative	cumule	cumulī

Derived terms

• cumulō

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: cúmul
• French: comble, → cumulus
  • → Catalan: comble
  • → Spanish: comble
• Italian: cumolo, → cumulo
• Portuguese: cômoro, combro, → cúmulo
• → Spanish: cúmulo (learned)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *kuml (see there for further descendants)
• → English: cumulus
• → Finnish: cumulus
• → Greek: κούλουμα (koúlouma)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *culumus
  • Catalan: gom
  • Spanish: colmo

References

• “cumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cumulus 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)
• cumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
    
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: aliquid felicitatis cumulum affert
    
  • to add the crowning point to a person's joy: cumulum gaudii alicui afferre (vid. sect. V. 6) (Fam. 16. 21. 1)
    
• cumulus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Romanian

Etymology

From French cumulus, from Latin cumulus.

Noun

cumulus m (uncountable)

1. cumulus

Declension

declension of cumulus (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cumulus	cumulusul
genitive/dative	(unui) cumulus	cumulusului
vocative	cumulusule