tumor

See also: Tumor, tumör, and tümör

English

Alternative forms

• tumour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“I bulge, swell”). English usage attested since the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tjuː.mə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tuː.məɹ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

Noun

tumor (plural tumors)

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): adenoma, granuloma
• See also Wikisaurus:tumor

Derived terms

• tumorigenesis

Translations

oncology, pathology: an abnormal growth

• Arabic: وَرَم‎ m (waram)
• Armenian: ուռուցք (hy) (uṙucʿkʿ)
• Catalan: tumor 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
• Finnish: kasvain (fi)
• French: tumeur (fr) f
• Georgian: სიმსივნე (simsivne)
• German: Tumor (de) m, Geschwulst (de) f, n
• Greek: όγκος (el) m (ógkos)

  Ancient: ἀθήρωμα n (athḗrōma)

• Hungarian: daganat (hu)
• Icelandic: æxli n, hnútur m
• Irish: siad m
• Italian: tumore (it) m
• Japanese: 腫瘍 (しゅよう, shuyō)
• Kazakh: ісік (kk) (isik)
• Korean: 종양 (ko) (jongyang) (腫瘍 (ko))

• Lao: ນໍ (nɔ́ː)
• Latvian: audzējs m
• Malagasy: fivontosana (mg), zihitra (mg)
• Malay: ketumbuhan, tumor
• Norman: chancre m
• Polish: guz (pl) m, nowotwór (pl) m
• Portuguese: tumor (pt) m
• Romanian: tumoare (ro) f
• Russian: о́пухоль (ru) f (ópuxolʹ)
• Scots: clyre
• Scottish Gaelic: pluc m, at m
• Slovak: nádor (sk) m
• Spanish: tumor (es) m
• Swedish: tumör (sv)
• Tamil: கட்டி (ta) (kaṭṭi)
• Thai: เนื้องอก (néua ngôk)
• Turkish: tümör (tr), ur (tr)
• Welsh: tyfiant (cy) m
• Yakut: искэн (isken)
• ǃXóõ: gǁkxʻáã

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Catalan

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: tu‧mor

Etymology

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

Noun

tumor m (plural tumoren, diminutive tumortje n)

1. tumour, swelling

Synonyms

• gezwel

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Latin

Etymology

From tumeō (“I bulge, swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈtʊ.mɔr]

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.

Inflection

Third declension.

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
• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “tumor”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “tumor” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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Portuguese

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

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

Synonyms

• (boil): 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

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. tumor