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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Verb
fumus
- conditional of fumi
Ido
Verb
fumus
- conditional of fumar
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fūmos, from earlier *θūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”). Cognates include Ancient Greek θῡμός (thūmós), Sanskrit धूम (dhūmá) and Old Church Slavonic дꙑмъ (dymŭ), English dust.
Pronunciation
Noun
fūmus m (genitive fūmī); second declension
- smoke, steam, fume
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.608–609:
- “‘Hīc, ubi disiectās mōlēs āvolsaque saxīs
saxa vidēs mixtōque undantem pulvere fūmum, .’”- “‘Here, where piles have been scattered, and stones torn from stone, and you see billowing smoke mixed with dust, .’”
(The destruction of Troy.)
- indication, sign
- fūmus bonī iūris ― sign of good law
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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References
- “fumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fumus 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)
- fumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.