tumeo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative verb of *tum- (“to swell”).^[1]

Cognates include Latin tūber, Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “big, strong”) and तूतुम (tūtumá, “strong, effective”), Lithuanian tumė́ti (“to become thick”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.me.oː/, [ˈt̪ʊmeoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.me.o/, [ˈt̪uːmeo]

tumeō (present infinitive tumēre); second conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. to be swollen, turgid, distended, puffed out or inflated, to swell

   Synonym: turgeō

2. (figuratively) to be excited or violent, ready to burst forth
3. (figuratively) to be puffed out or inflated with pride
4. (figuratively, of speech or writing) to be turgid, pompous or bombastic

   Synonym: turgeō

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