tumulusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtjuːmjələs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈtuːmjələs/

名詞

tumulus (plural tumuli)

1. (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     They planted the cannon on the tumuli, sole elevations in this level country, and formed themselves into column and hollow square.

   • 1898, Friedrich Ratzel, The History of Mankind, volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., page 325:

     Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.

   • 1898, Ernest Rhys, “The Lament for Urien from the Herbest”, in Welsh Ballads:

     The delicate white body will be covered to-day,
     The tumulus be reared, the green sod give way:
     And there, oh Cynvarch, thy son they will lay.

   • 2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:

     The tumulus is one of mankind's oldest burial monuments, dating back to 4,000 to 5,000 years B.C. […] Examples of tumuli can be seen peppering the landscape all over Western Europe.

同意語

• See burial mound § Synonyms

派生語

• Tumulus culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 1

From tumeō (“to swell”) +‎ -ulus. Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).

名詞

tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension

1. A heap of earth, mound, hill, knoll, hillock.
2. A barrow, grave, tumulus.

   Synonym: sepulcrum

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

別の表記

• tumolus

派生語

• tumulāmen
• tumulō
• tumulōsus

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tumulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
    
• “tumulus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “tumulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

語源 2

Ultimately from Arabic ثُمُن (ṯumun, “an eighth”). Compare Italian tomolo. Compare thuminus.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A unit of measure used in Sicily and Malta.

参照

• "tumulus", 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)