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Translingual

Symbol

tum

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tumbuka.

English

Pronunciation

Noun

tum (plural tums)

  1. shortened form of tummy
    Synonym: tum-tum
    • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 18:
      For here am I without a crumb
      To satisfy a raging tum--
      O what an oversight!"
      As he was indulging in these melancholy reflexions he came round a bend in the road, and discovered two people in the very act of having lunch.

See also

Anagrams

Balinese

Romanization

tum

  1. Romanization of ᬢᬸᬫ᭄

Iban

Pronunciation

Noun

tum

  1. an ancient jar that is large in the middle and opening, having a black surface and no design

Verb

tum

  1. to heat; to warm
    Tum dulu lauk chelap nya
    Heat the cold dish first
  2. to host lot of people for a long period of time
    Kami kena tum bala pengabang dua hari.
    We hosted the visitor for two days

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tummid.[2]

Verb

tum (present analytic tumann, future analytic tumfaidh, verbal noun tumadh, past participle tumtha) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. to dip (lower into a liquid), immerse, plunge, duck, submerge
  2. to dip (treat cattle or sheep by immersion)
  3. to dive (jump into water head-first; descend)
  4. to pitch (move so that the front of the craft goes alternatively up and down)
    Synonym: bocáil

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tum thum dtum
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ tum”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tummaid, tu(i)mmid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

tum

  1. Romanization of ꦠꦸꦩ꧀

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tom, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative of *só. Cf. its feminine form Latin tam, as in tamquam. Cognate with Ancient Greek τότε (tóte).

Pronunciation

Adverb

tum (not comparable)

  1. then, thereupon
    Tum Caecilius in horto sedet.
    Then Caecilius sits in the garden.
  2. at the time, at that time
    tum primumfor the first time, then at first
    • 58 BC, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, VII, 11:
      Qui tum primum allato nuntio de oppugnatione Vellaunoduni
      Who then for the first time being delivered information about the siege of Vellaunodunum
    • between 27 and 9 BC, Livy, Ab urbe condita:
      Ea tum cura maxime intentos habebat Romanos, non ab ira tantum, quae in nullam unquam ciuitatem iustior fuit, quam quod urbs tam nobilis ac potens, sicut defectione sua traxerat aliquot populos, ita recepta inclinatura rursus animos uidebatur ad ueteris imperii respectum
      This concern in particular troubled the mindful Romans at the time, not so much because of anger, which has never been more justified against any other city, rather because a city so noble and powerful, in the same way that it had attracted the support of a number of communities by its revolt, was thought would again turn attention back towards respect for the previous government once recaptured.
  3. further on

Usage notes

Often coupled with cum

  1. Such that "tum x, cum y" = "then x, when y"
  2. "cum x tum y" = "not only x but also y"

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • tum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • tum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • at the same moment that, precisely when: eo ipso tempore, cum; tum ipsum, cum
    • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
    • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, vir omnium, qui tum fuerunt, clarissimus
    • I was ten years old at the time: tum habebam decem annos
    • to be sound asleep: sopītum esse
    • to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    • a hand-to-hand engagement ensued: tum pes cum pede collatus est (Liv. 28. 2)

Middle English

Adjective

tum

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of tome (empty)

Norn

Etymology

From Old Norse *þumi, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô.

Noun

tum

  1. thumb

Old Javanese

Etymology

Unknown, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t1um (to boil, to distil) (compare Thai ต้ม (dtôm, to boil), Khmer ដាំ (dam, to boil)).

Pronunciation

Verb

tum

  1. (cooking) to cook by warping by banana leaf then steamed

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦠꦸꦩ꧀ (tum)
  • Balinese: ᬢᬸᬫ᭄ (tum)

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Interjection

tum

  1. (onomatopoeia) crash (to collide with something)
    Synonym: crás

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tummaid (dips, plunges, immerses).

Verb

tum (past thum, future tumaidh, verbal noun tumadh, past participle tumta)

  1. plunge, immerse, dip, duck, steep

References

Sumerian

Romanization

tum

  1. Romanization of 𒌈 (tum)

Swedish

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Etymology

From Old Swedish tumme.

Noun

tum c

  1. inch (unit of length)

Usage notes

Can mean at least three different units: 24.74 mm (verktum) before 1855, 29.69 mm (decimaltum) between 1855 and 1889, and usually 25.4 mm (engelsk tum) today – an international inch.

Declension

References

Tabasco Zoque

Numeral

tum

  1. one

References

  • A. G. de León G., El ayapaneco: una variante del zoqueano en Ja Chontalpa tabasquena

Ternate

Etymology

From tumu, with word-final vowel deletion.

Pronunciation

Verb

tum

  1. Alternative form of tumu (to dive, leap down from)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tum
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totum fotum mitum
2nd notum nitum
3rd Masculine otum itum, yotum
Feminine motum
Neuter itum
- archaic

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

tum (𡉾)

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Volapük

Numeral

tum

  1. hundred
    • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 19:
      Cils äbinons-li i pö zäl et? Si! elogob us tumis.
      Were there children at that party as well? Yes, I've seen hundreds of them there.

Usage notes

This word must be preceded by a numeral for a single-digit number, so "one hundred" is expressed in Volapük as "baltum."

Derived terms