tum

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Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

tum

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tumbuka.

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /tʌm/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun[edit]

tum (plural tums)

  1. shortened form of tummy
    Synonym: tum-tum
    • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 18:
      For here am I without a crumb
      To satisfy a raging tum--
      O what an oversight!"
      As he was indulging in these melancholy reflexions he came round a bend in the road, and discovered two people in the very act of having lunch.

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Balinese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

tum

  1. Romanization of ᬢᬸᬫ᭄

Iban[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tum

  1. an ancient jar that is large in the middle and opening, having a black surface and no design

Verb[edit]

tum

  1. to heat; to warm
    Tum dulu lauk chelap nya
    Heat the cold dish first
  2. to host lot of people for a long period of time
    Kami kena tum bala pengabang dua hari.
    We hosted the visitor for two days

Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish tummid.[2]

Verb[edit]

tum (present analytic tumann, future analytic tumfaidh, verbal noun tumadh, past participle tumtha) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. to dip (lower into a liquid), immerse, plunge, duck, submerge
  2. to dip (treat cattle or sheep by immersion)
  3. to dive (jump into water head-first; descend)
  4. to pitch (move so that the front of the craft goes alternatively up and down)
    Synonym: bocáil

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tum thum dtum
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ tum”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tummaid, tu(i)mmid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading[edit]

Javanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

tum

  1. Romanization of ꦠꦸꦩ꧀

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *tom, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative of *só. Cf. its feminine form Latin tam, as in tamquam. Cognate with Ancient Greek τότε (tóte).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

tum (not comparable)

  1. then, thereupon
    Tum Caecilius in horto sedet.
    Then Caecilius sits in the garden.
  2. at the time, at that time, then
    tum primumfor the first time, then at first
    • 58 BC, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, VII, 11:
      Qui tum primum allato nuntio de oppugnatione Vellaunoduni
      Who then for the first time being delivered information about the siege of Vellaunodunum
    • between 27 and 9 BC, Livy, Ab urbe condita:
      Ea tum cura maxime intentos habebat Romanos, non ab ira tantum, quae in nullam unquam ciuitatem iustior fuit, quam quod urbs tam nobilis ac potens, sicut defectione sua traxerat aliquot populos, ita recepta inclinatura rursus animos uidebatur ad ueteris imperii respectum
      This concern in particular troubled the mindful Romans at the time, not so much because of anger, which has never been more justified against any other city, rather because a city so noble and powerful, in the same way that it had attracted the support of a number of communities by its revolt, was thought would again turn attention back towards respect for the previous government once recaptured.
  3. further on

Usage notes[edit]

Often coupled with cum

  1. Such that "tum x, cum y" = "then x, when y"
  2. "cum x tum y" = "not only x but also y"

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • tum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • tum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • at the same moment that, precisely when: eo ipso tempore, cum; tum ipsum, cum
    • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
    • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, vir omnium, qui tum fuerunt, clarissimus
    • I was ten years old at the time: tum habebam decem annos
    • to be sound asleep: sopītum esse
    • to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    • a hand-to-hand engagement ensued: tum pes cum pede collatus est (Liv. 28. 2)

Middle English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

tum

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of tome (empty)

Norn[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse þumi, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô.

Noun[edit]

tum

  1. thumb

Old Javanese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t1um (to boil, to distil) (compare Thai ต้ม (dtôm, to boil), Khmer ដាំ (dam, to boil)).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

tum

  1. (cooking) to cook by warping by banana leaf then steamed

Descendants[edit]

  • Javanese: ꦠꦸꦩ꧀ (tum)
  • Balinese: ᬢᬸᬫ᭄ (tum)

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

tum

  1. (onomatopoeia) crash (to collide with something)
    Synonym: crás

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish tummaid (dips, plunges, immerses).

Verb[edit]

tum (past thum, future tumaidh, verbal noun tumadh, past participle tumta)

  1. plunge, immerse, dip, duck, steep

References[edit]

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

tum

  1. Romanization of 𒌈 (tum)

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish tumme.

Noun[edit]

tum c

  1. inch; a measure of length

Usage notes[edit]

At least three different lengths can be intended: before 1855 it corresponded to 24.74 mm (also known as verktum); between 1855 and 1889 it was 29.69 mm (decimaltum). Today it mainly refers to imperial inches (engelsk tum), i.e. 25.40 mm.

Declension[edit]

Declension of tum 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tum tummen tum tummen
Genitive tums tummens tums tummens

Related terms[edit]

Tabasco Zoque[edit]

Numeral[edit]

tum

  1. one

References[edit]

  • A. G. de León G., El ayapaneco: una variante del zoqueano en Ja Chontalpa tabasquena [The Ayapaneco dialect: a variant of the Zoque language in the Chontalpa region of Tabasco]

Ternate[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tumu, with word-final vowel deletion.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

tum

  1. Alternative form of tumu (to dive, leap down from)

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of tum
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totum fotum mitum
2nd notum nitum
3rd Masculine otum itum, yotum
Feminine motum
Neuter itum
- archaic

References[edit]

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tum (𡉾)

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Volapük[edit]

Numeral[edit]

tum

  1. hundred

Usage notes[edit]

This word must be preceded by a numeral for a single-digit number, so "one hundred" is expressed in Volapük as "baltum."

Derived terms[edit]