dumus

See also: dūmus

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin dū̆smus (“thickety”, adjective), a form attributed to Livius Andronicus and translated as dūmosus by Paul the Deacon's epitome of Festus. Further etymology uncertain; De Vaan and Schrijver cite Old Irish dos (“tree, bush, thicket”) as a likely cognate, from which a common stem *dus- can be reconstructed. Other possible cogates include Middle High German zūsach (“thicket”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

dūmus m (genitive dūmī); second declension

  1. bush, shrub

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dūmus dūmī
genitive dūmī dūmōrum
dative dūmō dūmīs
accusative dūmum dūmōs
ablative dūmō dūmīs
vocative dūme dūmī

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “dūmus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 182-183
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN

Further reading

  • “dumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Adjective

dumus

  1. (dialectal) accusative masculine plural of dums
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