tumulus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tumeō (“to 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. ==== Synonyms ==== See burial mound § Synonyms ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === tumulum n, tumolus m (Late Latin) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʊ.mʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.mu.lus] === Etymology 1 === From tumeō (“to swell”) +‎ -ulus. Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”). ==== Noun ==== tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension mound; hill; knoll; hillock; heap of earth barrow; grave' tumulus Synonym: sepulcrum ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “tumulus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2] “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. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension (Medieval Latin) A unit of measure used in Sicily and Malta. ==== References ==== "tumulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Romanian == === Noun === tumulus m (plural tumuluși) alternative form of tumul ==== Declension ====