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cumulus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs/
• Rhymes: -uːmjələs
• Hyphenation: cu‧mu‧lus

Noun

cumulus (plural cumuli)

1. A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
   • 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.

2. A mound or heap.

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumulus/, [ˈkumulus̠]
• Syllabification^(key): cu‧mu‧lus

Noun

cumulus

1. cumulus (cloud)

Declension

Synonyms

• cumuluspilvi
• kumpupilvi

Derived terms

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

Pronunciation

Noun

cumulus m (plural cumulus)

1. cumulus

Further reading

• “cumulus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkʊmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkuːmulus]

Noun

cumulus m (genitive cumulī); second declension

1. heap, pile

   Synonyms: acervus, moles, massa

2. surplus
3. summit

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cumulō

Descendants

References

• “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.
• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from French cumulus, from Latin cumulus.

Noun

cumulus m (uncountable)

1. cumulus

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