different between stum vs tum

English

Etymology

From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?m/

Noun

stum (countable and uncountable, plural stums)

1. (obsolete) Unfermented grape juice; must.
   • 1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales

     Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.

   • 1682, John Dryden, The Medal

     And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.

2. (obsolete) Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.

Verb

stum (third-person singular simple present stums, present participle stumming, simple past and past participle stummed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To ferment.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
   • 1696, John Floyer, The praeternatural State of animal Hurnours described by their sensible Qualities

     We stum our crude wines […] to renew their spirits.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.

References

• stum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• MTUs, UMTS, must, smut, tums

Danish

Adjective

stum (neuter stumt, plural and definite singular attributive stumme)

1. mute, not possessing the ability of speech
2. temporarily unable to speak due to strong emotion
3. not involving speech

Latvian

Verb

stum

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of stumt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of stumt

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

stum

1. mute; unable to speak

Related terms

• stumhet
• stumfilm

Anagrams

• must, tums

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”)