-tum

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tum"

German

Alternative forms

• -thum, -thumb (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German -tuom, from Old High German -tuom, from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz (“-dom”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos (“thing put”).

Cognate with English -dom, Dutch -dom, Swedish -dom.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːm/, [tʰuːm]

• Audio:

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Suffix

-tum n or m (strong, genitive -tums or (less common) -tumes, plural -tümer)

1. A suffix used to derive abstract nouns: -dom

Declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das, der	-tum	die	-tümer
genitive	eines	des	-tums, -tumes1	der	-tümer
dative	einem	dem	-tum, -tume1,2	den	-tümern
accusative	ein, einen	das, den	-tum	die	-tümer

Declension of -tum [neuter // masculine, strong]

¹Less common.
²Now rare, see notes.

See also

German terms suffixed with -tum

References

1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “-tum”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology 1

From -tus (forming adjectives), from Proto-Italic *-tos, from Proto-Indo-European *-tós (suffix creating verbal adjectives).

Suffix

-tum

1. inflection of -tus:
   1. masculine accusative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular

Etymology 2

Most likely a nominalization of the neuter of -tus (adjective-forming suffix).

Alternative forms

• -ētum

Suffix

-tum n (genitive -tī); second declension

(applied to noun stems)

1. (of vegetation) A grove or thicket

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -tum

Etymology 3

From -tus (forming nouns of action).

Suffix

-tum

1. accusative singular of -tus

Suffix

-tum

1. suffix forming the accusative supine of verbs