tumulus

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English

Etymology

From Latin tumulus (mound, hill), from tumeō (I swell). Doublet of tombolo.

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Noun

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tumulus (plural tumuli)

  1. (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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Etymology 1

From tumeō (to swell) +‎ -ulus. Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, swell).

Noun

tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension

  1. A heap of earth, mound, hill, knoll, hillock.
  2. 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
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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

  1. (Medieval Latin) A unit of measure used in Sicily and Malta.

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Romanian

Noun

tumulus m (plural tumuluși)

  1. Alternative form of tumul

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