cumulus

English

Wikipedia

A cumulus cloud.

Noun

cumulus (plural cumuli)

1. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
   • 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,

     Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

2. A mound or heap.

Translations

A large white puffy cloud

• Bulgarian: кълбест облак (bg) (kǎlbest oblak) m
• German: Quellwolke (de) f, Haufenwolke (de) f, Kumuluswolke (de) f, Cumulus (de)
• Japanese: 積雲 (ja) (せきうん, sekiun)

• Latvian: gubu mākonis (lv)
• Portuguese: cúmulo (pt) m
• Swedish: cumulusmoln (sv) n

A mound or heap

• Bulgarian: куп (bg) (kup) m, купчина (bg) (kupčina) f
• Japanese: 堆積 (ja) (たいせき, taiseki)

• Portuguese: cúmulo (pt) m, acúmulo (pt) m, monte (pt) m, pilha (pt) f

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• Italian: cumulo m (1,2)

• Russian: кучевая (kučevája) f

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Latin

Noun

cumulus (genitive cumulī); m, second declension

1. heap, pile
2. surplus
3. summit

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	cumulus	cumulī
genitive	cumulī	cumulōrum
dative	cumulō	cumulīs
accusative	cumulum	cumulōs
ablative	cumulō	cumulīs
vocative	cumule	cumulī

Descendants

• English: cumulus
• Greek: κούλουμα
• Italian: cumolo
• Portuguese cômoro, combro, cúmulo
• Spanish: colmo, cúmulo