rumor

• rumour (Commonwealth)

From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹumɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

rumor (countable and uncountable, plural rumors) (American spelling)

1. (countable) A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.

   There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.

   vile rumor

   a rumor going round

   vicious rumors

   spread a rumor

2. (uncountable) Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.

   They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor.

3. (uncountable, archaic) Report, news, information in general.
   • 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods‎^[1], London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 3:

     It stands a city aloof. There hath been no rumour of it—I alone have dreamed of it, and I may not be sure that my dreams are true.

4. (uncountable, obsolete) Fame, reputation.
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Clamor, din, outcry.

• (piece of information):
• (information of questionable accuracy): gossip, hearsay, talk, tittle-tattle

• information

rumor (third-person singular simple present rumors, present participle rumoring, simple past and past participle rumored)

1. (transitive, usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.

   John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.

Borrowed from Latin rūmōrem (a borrowing per DCVB). Doublet of remor. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈmor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ruˈmo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ruˈmoɾ]

rumor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural rumors)

1. rumor

• “rumor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Proto-Italic *roumōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.mɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.mor]

rūmor m (genitive rūmōris); third declension

1. rumor, hearsay, gossip
2. rustle, murmur, a murmuring
3. the voice of the people

Third-declension noun.

• “rumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rumor", 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)
• rumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • report says; people say: rumor, fama, sermo est or manat
    
  • a rumour is prevalent: rumor, fama viget
    
  • a report, an impression is gaining ground: rumor increbrescit
    
  • to spread a rumour: rumorem spargere
    
  • vague rumours reach us: dubii rumores afferuntur ad nos
    

Learned borrowing from Latin rūmor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.mɔr/
• Rhymes: -umɔr
• Syllabification: ru‧mor

rumor m inan

1. din, hubbub, racket, tumult, uproar

   Synonyms: wrzawa, zamieszanie

• rumor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin rumōrem.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: ru‧mor

rumor m (plural rumores)

1. rumour (statement or claim from no known reliable source)
2. continuous noise
   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     No confuso rumor que se formava, destacavam-se risos, sons de vozes que altercavam, sem se saber de onde, grasnar de marrecos, cantar de galos, cacarejar de galinhas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rumor.

Borrowed from Latin rumorem.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ruˈmoɾ/ [ruˈmoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ru‧mor

rumor m (plural rumores)

1. rumor

   Synonym: fábula

2. murmur

   Synonym: murmurio

• “rumor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish rumor.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾuˈmoɾ/ [ɾʊˈmoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ru‧mor

rumór (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜋᜓᜇ᜔)

1. rumor

   Synonyms: tsismis, bali-balita, usap-usapan, bulong-bulungan