cumulus

English

A cumulus cloud.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːmjələs/
• Rhymes: -uːmjələs
• Hyphenation: cu‧mu‧lus

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

white puffy cloud

• Bulgarian: кълбест облак m (kǎlbest oblak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 積雲, 积云 (zik¹wan⁴)

  Mandarin: 積雲 (zh), 积云 (zh) (jīyún)

• Dutch: stapelwolk (nl) m, f
• Finnish: kumpupilvi (fi)
• German: Quellwolke (de) f, Haufenwolke (de) f, Kumuluswolke f, Cumulus
• Japanese: 積雲 (せきうん, sekiun)

• Latin: cumulus m, nubes cumula f,
• Latvian: gubu mākonis
• Maori: kapua whakapipi
• Portuguese: cúmulo (pt) m
• Russian: кучевое (kučevoje) облако (ru) (oblako)
• Swedish: cumulusmoln (sv) n
• Tagalog: buntuning alapaap

mound or heap

• Bulgarian: куп (bg) m (kup), купчина (bg) f (kupčina)
• Finnish: kasata (fi)

• 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)

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumulus/
• Hyphenation: cu‧mu‧lus

Noun

cumulus

1. cumulus (cloud)

Declension

Inflection of cumulus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		cumulus	cumulukset
genitive		cumuluksen	cumulusten cumuluksien
partitive		cumulusta	cumuluksia
illative		cumulukseen	cumuluksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		cumulus	cumulukset
accusative	nom.	cumulus	cumulukset
	gen.	cumuluksen
genitive		cumuluksen	cumulusten cumuluksien
partitive		cumulusta	cumuluksia
inessive		cumuluksessa	cumuluksissa
elative		cumuluksesta	cumuluksista
illative		cumulukseen	cumuluksiin
adessive		cumuluksella	cumuluksilla
ablative		cumulukselta	cumuluksilta
allative		cumulukselle	cumuluksille
essive		cumuluksena	cumuluksina
translative		cumulukseksi	cumuluksiksi
instructive		—	cumuluksin
abessive		cumuluksetta	cumuluksitta
comitative		—	cumuluksineen

Synonyms

• cumuluspilvi
• kumpupilvi

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ku-m-olo, from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”); see also Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), Ancient Greek κύω (kúō), and Sanskrit श्वयति (śvayati, “swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkʊ.mʊ.ɫʊs]

Noun

cumulus m (genitive cumulī); second declension

1. heap, pile
2. surplus
3. summit

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Derived terms

• cumulō

Descendants

• English: cumulus (borrowing), accumulate
• French: comble, cumulus (borrowing)
• Greek: κούλουμα (koúlouma)

• Italian: cumolo, cumulo (borrowing)
• Portuguese cômoro, combro, cúmulo (borrowing)
• Spanish: colmo, cúmulo (borrowing)

References

• cumulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cumulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cumulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
    
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: aliquid felicitatis cumulum affert
    
  • to add the crowning point to a person's joy: cumulum gaudii alicui afferre (vid. sect. V. 6) (Fam. 16. 21. 1)
    
• cumulus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016