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tumeo

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative verb of *tum- (“to swell”).[1]

    Cognates include Latin tūber, Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “big, strong”) and तूतुम (tūtumá, “strong, effective”), Lithuanian tumė́ti (“to become thick”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    tumeō (present infinitive tumēre); second conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

    1. to be swollen, turgid, distended, puffed out or inflated, to swell
      Synonym: turgeō
    2. (figuratively) to be excited or violent, ready to burst forth
    3. (figuratively) to be puffed out or inflated with pride
    4. (figuratively, of speech or writing) to be turgid, pompous or bombastic
      Synonym: turgeō

    Conjugation

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       Conjugation of tumeō (second conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active-only)
    indicative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present tumeō tumēs tumet tumēmus tumētis tument
    imperfect tumēbam tumēbās tumēbat tumēbāmus tumēbātis tumēbant
    future tumēbō tumēbis tumēbit tumēbimus tumēbitis tumēbunt
    subjunctive singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present tumeam tumeās tumeat tumeāmus tumeātis tumeant
    imperfect tumērem tumērēs tumēret tumērēmus tumērētis tumērent
    imperative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present — tumē — — tumēte —
    future — tumētō tumētō — tumētōte tumentō
    non-finite forms active passive
    present perfect future present perfect future
    infinitives tumēre — — — — —
    participles tumēns — — — — —
    verbal nouns gerund supine
    genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
    tumendī tumendō tumendum tumendō — —

    Derived terms

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    Further reading

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    • “tumeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “tumeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • tumeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    References

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    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tumeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 633
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