tumulus
English
Etymology
From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tumeō (“I swell”). Doublet of tombolo.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtjuːmjələs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtuːmjələs/
Noun
tumulus (plural tumuli)
- (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1:
- They planted the cannon on the tumuli, sole elevations in this level country, and formed themselves into column and hollow square.
- 1898, Ernest Rhys, “The Lament for Urien from the Herbest”, in Welsh Ballads:
- The delicate white body will be covered to-day,
The tumulus be reared, the green sod give way:
And there, oh Cynvarch, thy son they will lay.
- 2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, OCLC 53045242, page 14:
- The tumulus is one of mankind's oldest burial monuments, dating back to 4,000 to 5,000 years B.C. […] Examples of tumuli can be seen peppering the landscape all over Western Europe.
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Synonyms
- burial mound
- burian (chiefly Scottish)
Derived terms
- Tumulus culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
mound of earth
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Latin
Etymology
From tumeō (“I swell”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪ʊmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪uːmulus]
Noun
tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension
- A heap of earth, mound, hill, knoll, hillock.
- A barrow, grave, tumulus.
- Synonym: sepulcrum
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tumulus | tumulī |
Genitive | tumulī | tumulōrum |
Dative | tumulō | tumulīs |
Accusative | tumulum | tumulōs |
Ablative | tumulō | tumulīs |
Vocative | tumule | tumulī |
Alternative forms
- tumolus
Derived terms
- tumulāmen
- tumulō
- tumulōsus
Related terms
- tumefaciō
- tumentia
- tumeō
- tumēscō
- tumidē
- tumiditās
- tumidō
- tumidōsus
- tumidulus
- tumidus
- tumor
- tumōrōsus
Descendants
- Catalan: túmul
- English: tumulus
- French: tumulus
- Galician: tumbo
- Italian: tumulo, tombolo
- → Catalan: tómbol
- → English: tombolo
- Portuguese: túmulo
- Romanian: tumul
- Spanish: tolmo, túmulo
References
- “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tumulus 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)
- tumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
- on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
- “tumulus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “tumulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian
Noun
tumulus m (plural tumuluși)
- Alternative form of tumul
Declension
Declension of tumulus
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tumulus | tumulusul | (niște) tumuluși | tumulușii |
genitive/dative | (unui) tumulus | tumulusului | (unor) tumuluși | tumulușilor |
vocative | tumulusule | tumulușilor |