Noun
tumulus (plural tumuli)
- (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
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.
2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:The tumulus is one of mankind's oldest burial monuments, dating back to 4,000 to 5,000 years B.C. […] Examples of tumuli can be seen peppering the landscape all over Western Europe.
Translations
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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Etymology 1
From tumeō (“to swell”) + -ulus. Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).
Noun
tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension
- A heap of earth, mound, hill, knoll, hillock.
- A barrow, grave, tumulus.
- Synonym: sepulcrum
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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
- “tumulus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “tumulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Noun
tumulus m (plural tumuluși)
- Alternative form of tumul
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