FromLatintumulus(“mound, hill”), fromtumeō(“I swell”).Doublet oftombolo.
tumulus (pluraltumuli)
- (archaeology) Amound ofearth, especially one placed over aprehistorictomb; abarrow.
1898,Ernest Rhys, “The Lament for Urien from the Herbest”, inWelsh Ballads:The delicate white body will be covered to-day,
Thetumulus be reared, the green sod give way:
And there, oh Cynvarch, thy son they will lay.
2004, Douglas Keister,Stories in Stone, Gibbs Smith,→ISBN,→OCLC, page14:Thetumulus is one of mankind's oldest burial monuments, dating back to 4,000 to 5,000 years B.C.[…] Examples oftumuli can be seen peppering the landscape all over Western Europe.
mound of earth
- Bulgarian:гробна могила f(grobna mogila)
- Czech:mohyla (cs) f
- Danish:gravhøj (da) c
- Dutch:grafheuvel (nl) m
- Esperanto:tumulo
- Finnish:hautakumpu (fi)
- French:tumulus (fr) m
- Galician:mámoa (gl) f,medorra (gl) f,medoña (gl) f,medela f,borróa f,tombo (gl) m
- Greek:
- Ancient:κολώνη f(kolṓnē)
- Ido:tumulo (io)
- Ingrian:kalma,hautapeentara
- Irish:tuaim f,dumha m,tuama m
- Japanese:墳丘墓(ふんきゅうぼ, funkyūbo)(in general),古墳 (ja)(こふん, kofun)(more specific to Japan)
- Latin:tumulāmen n,tumulus m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:gravhaug m
- Nynorsk:gravhaug m
- Polish:kurhan (pl) m,kopiec (pl)
- Portuguese:túmulo (pt) m
- Romanian:tumul (ro) m
- Russian:курга́н (ru) m(kurgán)
- Serbo-Croatian:tumulus (sh) m
- Spanish:túmulo (es) m
- Turkish:tümülüs (tr)
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Fromtumeō(“to swell”) +-ulus. Cognates includeAncient Greekτύμβος(túmbos,“swell”).
tumulus m (genitivetumulī);second declension
- Aheap ofearth,mound,hill,knoll,hillock.
- Abarrow,grave,tumulus.
- Synonym:sepulcrum
Second-declension noun.
- “tumulus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tumulus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tumulus inGaffiot, 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
- “tumulus”, inThe Perseus Project (1999)Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “tumulus”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ultimately fromArabicثُمُن(ṯumun,“an eighth”). CompareItaliantomolo. Comparethuminus.
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tumulus m (genitivetumulī);second declension
- (Medieval Latin)A unit of measure used in Sicily and Malta.
tumulus m (pluraltumuluși)
- Alternative form oftumul
Tumulus culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia