tumeo

Latin

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  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
   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

Further reading
  • “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
  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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