tumid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tumidus (“swollen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtjuːmɪd/, /ˈtuːmɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːmɪd
Adjective
tumid (comparative more tumid, superlative most tumid)
- Swollen, enlarged, bulging.
- Cancerous, unhealthy.
- Pompous, bombastic.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 19:
- Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.
Related terms
Ivatan
Etymology
Noun
tumid
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French tumide or Latin tumidus.
Adjective
tumid m or n (feminine singular tumidă, masculine plural tumizi, feminine and neuter plural tumide)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | tumid | tumidă | tumizi | tumide | |||
| definite | tumidul | tumida | tumizii | tumidele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | tumid | tumide | tumizi | tumide | |||
| definite | tumidului | tumidei | tumizilor | tumidelor | ||||
References
- tumid in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN