tumulus
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tumeō (“I swell”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
tumulus (plural tumuli)
- (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1:
- They planted the cannon on the tumuli, sole elevations in this level country, and formed themselves into column and hollow square.
- 1898, Ernest Rhys, “The Lament for Urien from the Herbest”, in Welsh Ballads:
- The delicate white body will be covered to-day,
The tumulus be reared, the green sod give way:
And there, oh Cynvarch, thy son they will lay.
Synonyms
- burial mound
- burian (chiefly Scottish)
Derived terms
- Tumulus culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
mound of earth
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Latin
Etymology
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From tumeō (“I swell”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪ʊmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪uːmulus]
Noun
tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tumulus | tumulī |
Genitive | tumulī | tumulōrum |
Dative | tumulō | tumulīs |
Accusative | tumulum | tumulōs |
Ablative | tumulō | tumulīs |
Vocative | tumule | tumulī |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tumulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
- on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
- “tumulus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “tumulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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