different between tumour vs epulis

English

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tume? (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

Noun

tumour (plural tumours)

1. (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

Usage notes

Tumour is the favoured spelling throughout the English-speaking world with the exception of the United States, where tumor is standard.

Derived terms

• tumourigenesis

Translations

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tiu?mur/, /tiu??mu?r/

Noun

tumour (plural tumours) (Late Middle English)

1. tumour (abnormal or morbid bodily growth)
2. The growth of tumours or boils.

Descendants

• English: tumour, tumor

References

• “tum?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-30.

Old French

Alternative forms

• tumeur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tumor.

Noun

tumour f (oblique plural tumours, nominative singular tumour, nominative plural tumours)

1. tumor (abnormal swelling of an animal's living tissue)
   • 1288, Somme Me Gautier

     Tumour ou enflour

Descendants

• French: tumeur
• ? Middle English: tumour
  • English: tumour, tumor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin ep?lis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??pju.l?s/
• Rhymes: -u?l?s

Noun

epulis (plural epulides)

1. (medicine) A hard tumour or tumorous growth developed from the gums.

References

• “epulis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• pileus

Latin

Pronunciation

• ep?lis: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?pu.lis/, [??pu?lis]
• epul?s: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.pu.li?s/, [??p?li?s?]
• epul?s: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.pu.lis/, [???pulis]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (epoulís, “growth on the gums”).

Noun

ep?lis f (genitive ep?lidos); third declension (New Latin)

1. (medicine) A growth on the gum; an epulis.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

¹In poetry.

Descendants

• ? English: epulis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

epul?s n

1. dative/ablative plural of epulum

epul?s f (plural only)

1. dative/ablative of epulae