different between somersault vs tum

English

Alternative forms

• somerset
• summersault

Etymology

From French sombresault (now obsolete, compare French sursaut, soubresaut), from Old Occitan sobresalt, from sobre- (“over, above”) + salt (“jump”). Cognate with Spanish sobresaltar (“to spook, startle”) and Portuguese sobressaltar (“to spook, scare, jump over”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?m?(?)?s?lt/ IPA^(key): /?s?m?(?)?s??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?m?(?)?s?lt/

Noun

somersault (plural somersaults)

1. Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degree while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet going over one's head.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

somersault (third-person singular simple present somersaults, present participle somersaulting, simple past and past participle somersaulted)

1. To perform a somersault.

   The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.

Translations

See also

• flip

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

tum (plural tums)

1. shortened form of tummy

Anagrams

• MTU, Mut., UTM, mut.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative of *só. Cf. its feminine form Latin tam, as in cum-quam. Cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (tóte).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tum/, [t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tum/, [t?um]

Adverb

tum (not comparable)

1. then, thereupon

2. at the time, at that time, then

   (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 11)

   (Livius, ab urbe condita)

3. further on

   ...tum silvis scaena coruscis... - Aeneid, Book 1, Line 164

Usage notes

Often coupled with cum

1. Such that "tum x, cum y" = "then x, when y"
2. "cum x tum y"="not only x but also y"

Synonyms

• (then): deinde

Derived terms

• tunc

Related terms

References

• tum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Adjective

tum

1. (Northern) Alternative form of tome (“empty”)

Norn

Etymology

From Old Norse þumi, from Proto-Germanic *þ?mô.

Noun

tum

1. thumb

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tummaid (“dips, plunges, immerses”).

Verb

tum (past thum, future tumaidh, verbal noun tumadh, past participle tumta)

1. plunge, immerse, dip, duck, steep

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tummaid, tu(i)mmid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “tum” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.

Swedish

Noun

tum c

1. inch; a measure of length

Usage notes

At least three different lengths can be intended: before 1855 it corresponded to 24.74 mm (also known as verktum); between 1855 and 1889 it was 29.69 mm (decimaltum). Today it mainly refers to imperial inches (engelsk tum), i.e. 25.40 mm.

Declension

Related terms

• decimaltum
• fyrtumsspik
• tumgänga
• tumstjock
• tumstock
• verktum

Tabasco Zoque

Numeral

tum

1. one

References

• A. G. de León G., El ayapaneco: una variante del zoqueano en Ja Chontalpa tabasquena [The Ayapaneco dialect: a variant of the Zoque language in the Chontalpa region of Tabasco]

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [tum??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [tum??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [t?m??]

Noun

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Volapük

Numeral

tum

1. hundred

Usage notes

This word must be preceded by a numeral for a single-digit number, so "one hundred" is expressed in Volapük as "baltum."

Derived terms

• teltum (“two hundred”)
• kiltum (“three hundred”)
• foltum (“four hundred”)
• lultum (“five hundred”)
• mältum (“six hundred”)
• veltum (“seven hundred”)
• jöltum (“eight hundred”)
• zültum (“nine hundred”)