dumus

See also: dūmus

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin dusmus, dusimus (“place full of brambles”), from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”), related to Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, shaggy, dense”) and Latin dēnsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.mus/, [ˈd̪uːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.mus/, [ˈd̪uːmus]

Noun

dūmus m (genitive dūmī); second declension

1. bush, shrub

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dūmus	dūmī
genitive	dūmī	dūmōrum
dative	dūmō	dūmīs
accusative	dūmum	dūmōs
ablative	dūmō	dūmīs
vocative	dūme	dūmī

References

• “dumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Adjective

dumus

1. (dialectal form) accusative plural masculine of dums