different between cumulus vs clouds

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?kju?mj?l?s/
• Rhymes: -u?mj?l?s
• Hyphenation: cu?mu?lus

Noun

cumulus (plural cumuli)

1. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
   • 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,

     Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

2. A mound or heap.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kumulus/, [?kumulus?]
• Syllabification: cu?mu?lus

Noun

cumulus

1. cumulus (cloud)

Declension

Synonyms

• cumuluspilvi
• kumpupilvi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ku-m-olo, from *?ewh?- (“to swell”); see also Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), Ancient Greek ??? (kú?), and Sanskrit ?????? (?vayati, “swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ku.mu.lus/, [?k?m????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ku.mu.lus/, [?ku?mulus]

Noun

cumulus m (genitive cumul?); second declension

1. heap, pile
2. surplus
3. summit

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cumul?

Descendants

References

• cumulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cumulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cumulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• cumulus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla?dz/

Noun

clouds

1. plural of cloud

Verb

clouds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cloud

Anagrams

• coulds, scould

Spanish

Noun

clouds m pl

1. plural of cloud