tumor
English edit
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- tumour (Commonwealth)
Etymology edit
From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.
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tumor (plural tumors) (American spelling)
- (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
- a benign tumor
- a malignant tumor
- brain tumor
- identify tumor
- pancreatic tumor
- remove a tumor
- take a tumor
- stomach tumor
Usage notes edit
Tumor is the standard US spelling and an alternative spelling in Canada. Tumour is the standard modern spelling elsewhere.
Synonyms edit
- (an abnormal growth): neoplasm
Hyponyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:tumor
Derived terms edit
- aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
- antitumor
- devil facial tumor disease
- hypertumor
- intratumor
- microtumor
- neurotumor
- nontumor
- peritumor
- posttumor
- pretumor
- protumor
- pseudotumor
- tumorectomy
- tumored
- tumorgenic
- tumoricide
- tumorigenesis
- tumorigenic
- tumoristatic
- tumoritropic
- tumorless
- tumorlike
- tumor necrosis factor
- tumorogenesis
- tumorogenic
- tumoroid
- tumorolytic
- tumoromics
- tumorosphere
- tumorsphere
- xenotumor
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tumor m (plural tumors)
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tumor m inan
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Etymology edit
From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“I bulge, swell”).
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tumor m (plural tumoren, diminutive tumortje n)
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Interlingua edit
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tumor (plural tumores)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From tumeō (“I bulge, swell”) + -or.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪ʊmɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪uːmor]
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tumor m (genitive tumōris); third declension
- The state of being swollen.
- A swelling, tumor.
- The swell of the sea.
- (of the ground) An elevation, swelling.
- (figuratively) A commotion, fermentation, excitement; arrogance.
- (rhetoric) An inflated or pompous style, bombast.
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Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | tumor | tumōrēs |
Genitive | tumōris | tumōrum |
Dative | tumōrī | tumōribus |
Accusative | tumōrem | tumōrēs |
Ablative | tumōre | tumōribus |
Vocative | tumor | tumōrēs |
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References edit
- “tumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tumor 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)
- tumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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tumor m (plural tumor)
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tumor m (plural tumores)
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tȗmor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑мор)
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Spanish edit
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tumor m (plural tumores)
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Further reading edit
- “tumor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish tumor, from Latin tumor.
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tumór (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋᜓᜇ᜔)
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Further reading edit
- “tumor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018