different between tumour vs tumulate

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tju?mj?le?t/, (yod-coalescence) /?t?u?mj?le?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?tumj?le?t/

Verb

tumulate (third-person singular simple present tumulates, present participle tumulating, simple past and past participle tumulated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To swell.
   • 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion

     But when he considers the instruments , his heart begins to rise , and his pa??ions to tumulate and ferment into a storm

2. (transitive) To cover (a corpse, etc.) with a mound or tomb; to bury.

Related terms

• tumor, tumour
• tumulus

Italian

Verb

tumulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of tumulare
2. second-person plural imperative of tumulare
3. feminine plural of tumulato

Latin

Verb

tumul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tumul?