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English
Etymology
From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tumeō (“I swell”). Doublet of tombolo.
Pronunciation
Noun
tumulus (plural tumuli)
- (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC: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, 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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Translations
mound of earth
- Bulgarian: гробна могила f (grobna mogila)
- Czech: mohyla (cs) f
- Danish: gravhøj (da) c
- Dutch: grafheuvel (nl) m
- Esperanto: tumulo
- Finnish: hautakumpu (fi)
- French: tumulus (fr) m
- Galician: mámoa (gl) f, medorra (gl) f, medoña (gl) f, medela f, borróa f, tombo (gl) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: κολώνη f (kolṓnē)
- Ido: tumulo (io)
- Ingrian: kalma, hautapeentara
- Irish: tuaim f, dumha m, tuama m
- Japanese: 墳丘墓 (ふんきゅうぼ, funkyūbo) (in general), 古墳 (ja) (こふん, kofun) (more specific to Japan)
- Latin: tumulāmen n, tumulus m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gravhaug m
- Nynorsk: gravhaug m
- Polish: kurhan (pl) m, kopiec (pl)
- Portuguese: túmulo (pt) m
- Romanian: tumul (ro) m
- Russian: курга́н (ru) m (kurgán)
- Serbo-Croatian: tumulus (sh) m
- Spanish: túmulo (es) m
- Turkish: tümülüs (tr)
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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From tumeō (“to swell”) + -ulus. Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).
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.
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Descendants
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 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
- “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
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Arabic ثُمُن (ṯumun, “an eighth”). Compare Italian tomolo. Compare thuminus.
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Noun
tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) A unit of measure used in Sicily and Malta.
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Romanian
Noun
tumulus m (plural tumuluși)
- Alternative form of tumul
Declension