1. tŭmŭlus — Lewis & Short
a raised heap of earth
The corpus record — Latin
tumulus
tumulus · m
a raised heap of earth
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 14 · 116.67/10k
- Troades 16 · 23.49/10k
- Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
- Parentalia 4 · 15.39/10k
- De Bello Hispaniensi 5 · 8.26/10k
- Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
- Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- Pro Archia Poeta 2 · 6.42/10k
- Pharsalia 28 · 5.5/10k
- Peristephanon Liber 9 · 5.12/10k
Densest 12 of 94 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. tumulus — Walde–Hofmann
m
Attestations
- tumulos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.8.3
- tumulum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.5.7
- tumulos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.5.37
- tumulo Appendix Vergiliana, Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 86
- tumulus Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 396
- tumulus Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 411
6 of 496 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan p. 731; entry #12195 Review: Under source audit
- scan p. 1624; entry #3117 Review: Under source audit
The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.
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