tumulamen

Latin

Etymology

From tumulō (“I cover with a burial mound; entomb”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix), from tumulus, from tumeō (“I swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tu.muˈlaː.men/, [t̪ʊmʊˈɫ̪äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tu.muˈla.men/, [t̪umuˈläːmen]

Noun

tumulāmen n (genitive tumulāminis); third declension

1. A sepulchral mound, tumulus.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	tumulāmen	tumulāmina
genitive	tumulāminis	tumulāminum
dative	tumulāminī	tumulāminibus
accusative	tumulāmen	tumulāmina
ablative	tumulāmine	tumulāminibus
vocative	tumulāmen	tumulāmina

Synonyms

• (tumulus): tumulus

Related terms

• tumefaciō
• tumentia
• tumeō
• tumēscō
• tumidē
• tumiditās
• tumidō
• tumidōsus
• tumidulus
• tumidus
• tumor
• tumōrōsus
• tumulō
• tumulōsus
• tumulus

References

• “tumulamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tumulamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.