Wiktionary

tum

See also: TUM, túm, tùm, tũm, tüm, tụm, -tum, and -tum-

TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

tum

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

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

tum (plural tums)

  1. shortened form of tummy
    • 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.

AnagramsEdit

BalineseEdit

RomanizationEdit

tum

  1. Romanization of ᬢᬸᬫ᭄

JavaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

tum

  1. Romanization of ꦠꦸꦩ꧀

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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).

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

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 primum ― for the first time, then at first
    • Qui tum primum allato nuntio de oppugnatione Vellaunoduni ― Who then for the first time being delivered information about the siege of Vellaunodunum (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 11)
    • 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. (Livius, ab urbe condita)
  3. further on
    ...tum silvis scaena coruscis... - Aeneid, Book 1, Line 164

Usage notesEdit

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"

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

Latin correlatives (edit)
type interrogative indefinite (medial)
demonstrative		 proximal
demonstrative		 distal
demonstrative		 relative indefinite
relative		 identity other
basic quis, quī quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quisque, quisquam, aliquisquam, quispiam, ūllus is, iste, istic hic ille, illic quī quisquis, quīcumque ipse, īdem alter, alius
dual uter alteruter, uterque uter utercumque
number quot aliquot tot quot quotquot, quotcumque totidem
order quotus totus quotus quotuscumque
quantity quam aliquam tam quam †quamquam †tamen, †tandem
size quantus aliquantus tantus quantus quantuscumque tantusdem
quality quālis aliquālis tālis quālis quālis, quāliscumque
manner ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum utique, quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō ita, sic, eō/istō modō hōc modō illō modō ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque item, itidem aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
method,
path,
place 		quā aliquā, quāque eā, istāc hāc illāc quā quāquā, quācumque eādem aliā
place ubi alicubi, ubique, usquam, uspiam ibi, istic hīc illīc ubi ubiubi, ubicumque ibidem alibī, aliās
source unde alicunde, undeunde inde, istinc hinc illinc unde undecumque indidem aliunde
destination quō, quōrsum aliquō, quōquam, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum eō, istūc, °istōrsum hūc, °hōrsum illūc, °illōrsum quō quōquō, quōcumque eōdem aliō, aliorsum
time quandō quondam, aliquandō, quandōque, umquam tum, tunc num, nunc ōlim cum, quandō cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque simul aliās
exact time quota hōra ea/ista hōra hac hōra illa hōra quota hōra quotacumque hōra eadem hōra altera/alia hōra
repetition quotiēns aliquotiēns totiēns quotiēns quotiēnscumque
multiplication quotuplex totuplex quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated
° Rare

ReferencesEdit

  • “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 (2003-2023) 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 EnglishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

tum

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

NornEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

tum

  1. thumb

Old JavaneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

tum

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

DescendantsEdit

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

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Onomatopoeic.

PronunciationEdit

InterjectionEdit

tum

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

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

VerbEdit

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

  1. plunge, immerse, dip, duck, steep

ReferencesEdit

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

tum

  1. Romanization of 𒌈 (tum)

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Swedish tumme.

NounEdit

tum c

  1. inch; a measure of length

Usage notesEdit

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.

DeclensionEdit

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

Related termsEdit

Tabasco ZoqueEdit

NumeralEdit

tum

  1. one

ReferencesEdit

  • 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]

TernateEdit

EtymologyEdit

From tumu, with word-final vowel deletion.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

tum

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

ConjugationEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

tum • (𡉾)

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VolapükEdit

NumeralEdit

tum

  1. hundred

Usage notesEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

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