tumultus

Learned borrowing from Latin tumultus; doublet of tumult.

tumultus

1. (obsolete) A commotion.

Akin to tumulus. Cognates include Sanskrit तुमुल (tumula). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tʊˈmʊɫ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tuˈmul.tus]

tumultus m (genitive tumultūs); fourth declension

1. an uproar; bustle, violent commotion, disturbance, tumult; turmoil, panic

   Synonyms: concursus, inquiētūdō, cōnsternātiō, mōtus, turba, fragor, convīcium

   Antonyms: ōtium, pāx, quiēs

2. a storm, tempest, thunderclap

   Synonyms: hiems, procella, tempestās

   Antonym: tranquillum

3. a sudden outbreak of violence or an impending war; civil war; insurrection, riot, rebellion, sedition, tumult

   Synonyms: īnsurrēctiō, mōtus, rebellātiō, rebelliō, sēditiō

4. (of the mind or feelings) disturbance, disquietude, agitation; excitement, anxiety; fear, panic

   Synonyms: commōtiō, cōnsternātiō

5. (of speech) confusion, muddle, disorder

• Note that tumultī is an alternative form for the genitive singular tumultūs.

Fourth-declension noun.

• “tumultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tumultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tumultus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to quell an outbreak: tumultum sedare (B. C. 3. 18. 3)
    
• “tumultus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin