tumor

English Online Dictionary. What means tumor‎? What does tumor mean?

English

Alternative forms

• tumour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tjuː.mə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tuː.məɹ/
• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

Noun

tumor (plural tumors) (American spelling)

2. (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

   a benign tumor

   a malignant tumor

   brain tumor

   identify tumor

   pancreatic tumor

   remove a tumor

   take a tumor

   stomach tumor

Usage notes

Tumor is the standard US spelling and an alternative spelling in Canada. Tumour is the standard modern spelling elsewhere.

Synonyms

• (an abnormal growth): neoplasm

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:tumor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• tumor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [tuˈmor]

Noun

tumor m (plural tumors)

1. tumor

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtumor]

Noun

tumor m inan

1. tumor

   Synonym: nádor

Declension

See also

• novotvar

Further reading

• “tumor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tumor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“I bulge, swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈty.mɔr/
• Hyphenation: tu‧mor
• Rhymes: -ymɔr

Noun

tumor m (plural tumoren or tumors, diminutive tumortje n)

1. tumour, swelling

Synonyms

• gezwel

Derived terms

• hersentumor

Interlingua

Noun

tumor (plural tumores)

1. tumor

Related terms

• tumoric
• tumorose

Latin

Etymology

From tumeō (“I bulge, swell”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tumor m (genitive tumōris); third declension

1. The state of being swollen.
2. A swelling, tumor.
3. The swell of the sea.
4. (of the ground) An elevation, swelling.
5. (figuratively) A commotion, fermentation, excitement; arrogance.
6. (rhetoric) An inflated or pompous style, bombast.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (swelling): tumentia, tumiditās

Derived terms

• tumōrōsus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• “tumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tumor", 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)
• tumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• tümur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyˈmur/

Noun

tumor m (plural tumor)

1. tumor

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tumor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. (oncology, pathology) tumor (an abnormal growth)
2. boil (accumulation of pus)

   Synonyms: abcesso, furúnculo, pústula, carbúnculo, cisto, íngua, bubão

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Tumoer

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tûːmor/
• Hyphenation: tu‧mor

Noun

tȗmor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑мор)

1. tumor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tumor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈmoɾ/ [t̪uˈmoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: tu‧mor

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. tumor

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tumor, from Latin tumor.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈmoɾ/ [t̪ʊˈmoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: tu‧mor

Noun

tumór (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋᜓᜇ᜔)

1. tumor (US); tumour (UK)
2. boil

   Synonyms: pigsa, bukol

See also

• pamamaga
• baga

Further reading

• “tumor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018