tumeo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative verb of *tum- (“to swell”).[1]Cognates include Latin tūber, Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “big, strong”) and तूतुम (tūtumá, “strong, effective”), Lithuanian tumė́ti (“to become thick”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.me.oː/, [ˈtʊ.me.oː]
Verb
tumeō (present infinitive tumēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine forms
- to be swollen, turgid, distended, puffed out or inflated, to swell.
- Synonym: turgeō
- (figuratively) to be excited or violent, ready to burst forth.
- (figuratively) to be puffed out or inflated with pride.
- (figuratively, of speech or writing) to be turgid, pompous or bombastic.
- Synonym: turgeō
Inflection
| Conjugation of tumeo (second conjugation, defective, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | tumeō | tumēs | tumet | tumēmus | tumētis | tument |
| imperfect | tumēbam | tumēbās | tumēbat | tumēbāmus | tumēbātis | tumēbant | |
| future | tumēbō | tumēbis | tumēbit | tumēbimus | tumēbitis | tumēbunt | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | tumeam | tumeās | tumeat | tumeāmus | tumeātis | tumeant |
| imperfect | tumērem | tumērēs | tumēret | tumērēmus | tumērētis | tumērent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | tumē | — | — | tumēte | — |
| future | — | tumētō | tumētō | — | tumētōte | tumentō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | tumēre | — | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | tumēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| tumēre | tumendī | tumendō | tumendum | — | — | ||
Derived terms
- tumefaciō
- tumentia
- tumēscō
- tumidus
- tumor
- tumulus
- tumultus
Related terms
- tumidē
- tumiditās
- tumidō
- tumidōsus
- tumidulus
- tumōrōsus
- tumulāmen
- tumulō
- tumulōsus
Further reading
- tumeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tumeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tumeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “tumeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 633