tumulous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin tumulōsus (“full of hills or hillocks, hilly”), tumulus (“mound, hill, hillock”) + -ōsus, from tumeō (“I swell”).
Adjective[edit]
tumulous (comparative more tumulous, superlative most tumulous)
- Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- Tumulous waves
References[edit]
- “tumulous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.