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English

Alternative forms

• rumour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin r?mor (“common talk”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??u?m?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??um?/
• Rhymes: -u?m?(r)

Noun

rumor (countable and uncountable, plural rumors)

1. (American spelling, countable) A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.

   There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.

2. (American spelling, uncountable) Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.

   They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor.

Synonyms

• (piece of information):
• (information): gossip, hearsay, talk, tittle-tattle

Hypernyms

• information

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rumor (third-person singular simple present rumors, present participle rumoring, simple past and past participle rumored)

1. (transitive, usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.

   John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rumor, rumorem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ru?mo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ru?mo?/

Noun

rumor m (plural rumors)

1. rumor

Related terms

• rumorejar

Further reading

• “rumor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *roum?s, from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ru?.mor/, [?ru?m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ru.mor/, [?ru?m?r]

Noun

r?mor m (genitive r?m?ris); third declension

1. rumor, hearsay
2. rustle, murmur, a murmuring
3. The voice of the people

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• rumor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rumor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rumor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• rumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin r?mor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru.m?r/

Noun

rumor m inan

1. uproar, hubbub, tumult, racket, din

   Synonyms: wrzawa, zamieszanie

Declension

Further reading

• rumor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rumor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rumor, rumorem.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?u?mo(?)/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?u?mo?/
• Hyphenation: ru?mor

Noun

rumor m (plural rumores)

1. rumour (statement or claim from no known reliable source)
2. continuous noise

   • No confuso rumor que se formava, destacavam-se risos, sons de vozes que altercavam, sem se saber de onde, grasnar de marrecos, cantar de galos, cacarejar de galinhas.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rumor.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rumor, rumorem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru?mo?/, [ru?mo?]
• Hyphenation: ru?mor

Noun

rumor m (plural rumores)

1. rumor
2. murmur

Related terms

• rumorear

Further reading

• “rumor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

References

English

Etymology

Japanese ??.

Noun

isu (plural isu)

1. (sumo) An individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.

Synonyms

• isu-seki

Anagrams

• IUs, SIU, Siu, Sui, UIs

Alcozauca Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ísù.

Noun

isu

1. deer

References

• Stark C., Sharon (Sara), Audrey (Andrea) Johnson P. and Benita González de Guzmán (compilers) (1999) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Xochapa, Guerrero?^[1], 2nd ed. edition, SIL, published 2005

Estonian

Noun

isu (genitive isu, partitive isu)

1. appetite

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• head isu

See also

• apetiit
• söögiisu

Further reading

• isu in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Japanese

Romanization

isu

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Malay

Etymology

From English issue.

Noun

isu

1. issue

Mansaka

Noun

isù

1. young child

San Juan Colorado Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ísù.

Noun

isù

1. deer

References

• Stark Campbell, Sara; et al. (1986) Diccionario mixteco de San Juan Colorado (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 29)?^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 19

Tuvaluan

Noun

isu

1. nose

Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ísù.

Noun

isu

1. deer

References

• Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Tu??un na? ñuu Ki?yaa xí?in na? xiyo oeste ñuu Skuíya: Mixteco del oeste de Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca?^[3] (in Mixtec and Spanish), third edition, 2014, page 11

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ísù.

Noun

isu

1. deer

References

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)?^[4] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 11

Zulu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /í?su/

Noun

??su 5 (plural amásu 6)

1. means, method

   Synonym: icebo

2. plan of action, scheme, strategy

   Synonym: icebo

3. recipe

   Synonym: iresiphi

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-su”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “-su (3.2.9)”