different between tumulus vs tumuli

English

Etymology

From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tume? (“I swell”). Doublet of tombolo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tju?mj?l?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?tu?mj?l?s/

Noun

tumulus (plural tumuli)

1. (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.

Synonyms

• burial mound
• burian (chiefly Scottish)

Derived terms

• Tumulus culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From tume? (“I swell”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ?????? (túmbos, “swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.mu.lus/, [?t??m????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.mu.lus/, [?t?u?mulus]

Noun

tumulus m (genitive tumul?); second declension

1. A heap of earth, mound, hill, knoll, hillock.
2. A barrow, grave, tumulus.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Alternative forms

• tumolus

Derived terms

• tumul?men
• tumul?
• tumul?sus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• tumulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tumulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tumulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• tumulus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• tumulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Noun

tumuli

1. plural of tumulus

Italian

Verb

tumuli

1. second-person singular present indicative of tumulare
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of tumulare
3. second-person singular present subjunctive of tumulare
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tumulare
5. third-person singular imperative of tumulare

Noun

tumuli m

1. plural of tumulo

Latin

Noun

tumul?

1. nominative plural of tumulus
2. genitive singular of tumulus
3. vocative plural of tumulus