tumor

See also: Tumor, tumör, and tümör

English

Alternative forms

• tumour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tjuː.mə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tuː.məɹ/
• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

tumor (plural tumors) (American spelling)

1. (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

Usage notes

Tumor is the standard US spelling and an alternative spelling in Canada. Tumour is the standard modern spelling elsewhere.

Synonyms

• (an abnormal growth): neoplasm

Hyponyms

• (an abnormal growth): primary brain tumor
• See also Thesaurus:tumor

Derived terms

• tumorigenesis

Related terms

• contumely
• tumescent
• tumescent
• tumid
• tumult

 

Translations

oncology, pathology: an abnormal growth

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: وَرَم‎ m (waram)
• Armenian: ուռուցք (hy) (uṙucʿkʿ)
• Bashkir: шеш (šeš), яман шеш (yaman šeš)
• Belarusian: пухлі́на f (puxlína), во́пух m (vópux)
• Burmese: အကျိတ် (my) (a.kyit)
• Catalan: tumor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腫瘤 (zh), 肿瘤 (zh) (zhǒngliú), 瘤子 (zh) (liúzi)

• Crimean Tatar: şişik
• Czech: nádor (cs) m
• Dutch: tumor (nl) m, gezwel (nl) n
• Estonian: kasvaja
• Finnish: kasvain (fi)
• French: tumeur (fr) f
• Galician: tumor m
• Georgian: სიმსივნე (simsivne)
• German: Tumor (de) m, Geschwulst (de) f or n
• Greek: όγκος (el) m (ógkos)

  Ancient: ἀθήρωμα n (athḗrōma), κανθύλη f (kanthúlē)

• Hindi: फुलाव (hi) m (phulāv), नववर्धन m (navvardhan), ट्यूमर m (ṭyūmar)
• Hungarian: daganat (hu)
• Icelandic: æxli n, hnútur m
• Irish: siad m
• Italian: tumore (it) m
• Japanese: 腫瘍 (ja) (しゅよう, shuyō)
• Kazakh: ісік (kk) (isik)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 종양 (ko) (jong-yang) (腫瘍 (ko))
• Lao: ນໍ (nǭ)

• Latin: tumor m
• Latvian: audzējs m
• Macedonian: тумор m (tumor)
• Malagasy: fivontosana (mg), zihitra (mg)
• Malay: ketumbuhan, tumor
• Maori: tuma, koropuku
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: chancre m
• Persian: تومور‎ (fa) (tumor)
• Polish: guz (pl) m, nowotwór (pl) m, opuchlizna (pl) f
• Portuguese: tumor (pt) m
• Romanian: tumoare (ro) f
• Russian: о́пухоль (ru) f (ópuxolʹ)
• Scots: clyre
• Scottish Gaelic: pluc m, at m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ту̑мор m

  Roman: tȗmor (sh) m

• Slovak: nádor (sk) m
• Spanish: tumor (es) m
• Swedish: tumör (sv)
• Tamil: கட்டி (ta) (kaṭṭi)
• Thai: เนื้องอก (th) (nʉ́ʉa-ngɔ̂ɔk)
• Tibetan: སྐྲན (skran)
• Turkish: tümör (tr), ur (tr)
• Ukrainian: пухли́на f (puxlýna), о́пух m (ópux)
• Uzbek: shish (uz)
• Vietnamese: u (vi)
• Welsh: tyfiant (cy) m
• Yakut: искэн (isken)
• ǃXóõ: gǁkxʻáã

References

• tumor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tuˈmo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tuˈmoɾ/

Noun

tumor m (plural tumors)

1. tumor

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Czech

Noun

tumor m

1. tumor

Synonyms

• nádor

See also

• novotvar

Further reading

• tumor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tumor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“I bulge, swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈty.mɔr/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: tu‧mor
• Rhymes: -ymɔr

Noun

tumor m (plural tumoren, diminutive tumortje n)

1. tumour, swelling

Synonyms

• gezwel

Derived terms

• hersentumor

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Interlingua

Noun

tumor (plural tumores)

1. tumor

Related terms

• tumoric
• tumorose

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Latin

Etymology

From tumeō (“I bulge, swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪ʊmɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪uːmɔr]

Noun

tumor m (genitive tumōris); third declension

1. The state of being swollen.
2. A swelling, tumor.
3. The swell of the sea.
4. (of the ground) An elevation, swelling.
5. (figuratively) A commotion, fermentation, excitement; arrogance.
6. (rhetoric) An inflated or pompous style, bombast.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tumor	tumōrēs
Genitive	tumōris	tumōrum
Dative	tumōrī	tumōribus
Accusative	tumōrem	tumōrēs
Ablative	tumōre	tumōribus
Vocative	tumor	tumōrēs

Synonyms

• (swelling): tumentia, tumiditās

Derived terms

• tumōrōsus

Related terms

• tumefaciō
• tumentia
• tumeō
• tumēscō

• tumidē
• tumiditās
• tumidō
• tumidōsus

• tumidulus
• tumidus
• tumulāmen

• tumulō
• tumulōsus
• tumulus

Descendants

• Catalan: tumor
• English: tumor, tumour
• French: tumeur

• Italian: tumore
• Portuguese: tumor
• Spanish: tumor

References

• tumor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tumor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tumor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• tümur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyˈmur/

Noun

tumor m (plural tumor)

1. tumor

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈmo(ʁ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈmoɾ/
• Hyphenation: tu‧mor

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. (oncology, pathology) tumor (an abnormal growth)
2. boil (accumulation of pus)

   Synonyms: abcesso, furúnculo, pústula, carbúnculo, cisto, íngua, bubão

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tûːmor/
• Hyphenation: tu‧mor

Noun

tȗmor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑мор)

1. tumor

Declension

Declension of tumor

	singular	plural
nominative	tumor	tumori
genitive	tumora	tumora
dative	tumoru	tumorima
accusative	tumor	tumore
vocative	tumoru	tumori
locative	tumoru	tumorima
instrumental	tumorom	tumorima

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tumor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈmoɾ/, [t̪uˈmoɾ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧mor

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. tumor

Derived terms

• antitumoral
• tumoral
• tumoroso

Further reading

• “tumor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.