cumulus
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -uːmjələs
- Hyphenation: cu‧mu‧lus
Noun
[edit]cumulus (plural cumuli)
- A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
- 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Enlivens the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 102:
- There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun.
- 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,
- Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.
- A mound or heap.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]white, puffy cloud
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mound or heap
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cumulus
- cumulus (cloud)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of cumulus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | cumulus | cumulukset | |
genitive | cumuluksen | cumulusten cumuluksien | |
partitive | cumulusta | cumuluksia | |
illative | cumulukseen | cumuluksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | cumulus | cumulukset | |
accusative | nom. | cumulus | cumulukset |
gen. | cumuluksen | ||
genitive | cumuluksen | cumulusten cumuluksien | |
partitive | cumulusta | cumuluksia | |
inessive | cumuluksessa | cumuluksissa | |
elative | cumuluksesta | cumuluksista | |
illative | cumulukseen | cumuluksiin | |
adessive | cumuluksella | cumuluksilla | |
ablative | cumulukselta | cumuluksilta | |
allative | cumulukselle | cumuluksille | |
essive | cumuluksena | cumuluksina | |
translative | cumulukseksi | cumuluksiksi | |
abessive | cumuluksetta | cumuluksitta | |
instructive | — | cumuluksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
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[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “cumulus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]cumulus m (plural cumulus)
Further reading
[edit]- “cumulus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *ku-m-olo, from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”); see also Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), Ancient Greek κύω (kúō), and Sanskrit श्वयति (śvayati, “swell”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkʊmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkuːmulus]
Noun
[edit]cumulus m (genitive cumulī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | cumulus | cumulī |
genitive | cumulī | cumulōrum |
dative | cumulō | cumulīs |
accusative | cumulum | cumulōs |
ablative | cumulō | cumulīs |
vocative | cumule | cumulī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
References
[edit]- “cumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cumulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
- his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: aliquid felicitatis cumulum affert
- to add the crowning point to a person's joy: cumulum gaudii alicui afferre (vid. sect. V. 6) (Fam. 16. 21. 1)
- his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
- cumulus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French cumulus, from Latin cumulus.
Noun
[edit]cumulus m (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | cumulus | cumulusul |
genitive-dative | cumulus | cumulusului |
vocative | cumulusule |
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- English doublets
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- Rhymes:English/uːmjələs
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
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- English terms with quotations
- en:Clouds
- Finnish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Finnish/umulus
- Rhymes:Finnish/umulus/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
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- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
- French terms borrowed from Latin
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