tumultus

Learned borrowing from Latin tumultus; doublet of tumult.

tumultus

1. (obsolete) A commotion.

Akin to tumulus. Cognates include Sanskrit तुमुल (tumula).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tuˈmul.tus/, [t̪ʊˈmʊɫ̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tuˈmul.tus/, [t̪uˈmul̪t̪us]

tumultus m (genitive tumultūs); fourth declension

1. An uproar; bustle, violent commotion, disturbance, tumult; turmoil, panic.
2. A storm, tempest, thunderclap.
3. A sudden outbreak of violence or an impending war; civil war; insurrection, riot, rebellion, sedition, tumult.
4. (of the mind or feelings) Disturbance, disquietude, agitation; excitement, anxiety; fear, panic.
5. (of speech) Confusion, muddle, disorder.

• Note that tumultī is an alternative form for the genitive singular tumultūs.

Fourth-declension noun.

• (agitation, disquietude): commōtiō, cōnsternātiō
• (disturbance, tumult): concursus, inquiētūdō, cōnsternātiō, hiems, mōtus, procella, tempestās, turba, perculsus, fragor
• (insurrection, rebellion): īnsurrectiō, mōtus, rebellātiō, rebelliō, sēditiō
• (storm, tempest): hiems, procella, tempestās

• (antonym(s) of “agitation, disquietude”): ōtium, pāx, quiēs
• (antonym(s) of “disturbance, tumult”): ōtium, pāx, quiēs
• (antonym(s) of “storm, tempest”): tranquillum

• “tumultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tumultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tumultus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to quell an outbreak: tumultum sedare (B. C. 3. 18. 3)
    
• “tumultus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin