Tumulus Definition

to͝omyə-ləs, tyo͝o-
tumuli, tumuluses
noun
tumuli
An artificial mound; esp., an ancient burial mound; barrow.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
tumulus
Plural:
tumuli

Origin of Tumulus

  • From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill"), from tumeō (“I swell").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin teuə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tumulus Sentence Examples

  • In another a flock of vultures is feeding on the bodies of the fallen enemy; in a third a tumulus is being heaped up over those who had been slain on the side of Lagash.

  • Not far is a tumulus, Tomen fawr.

  • These were entirely subterranean, and little is now to be seen on the site but a great tumulus, the Cucumella, and a few smaller ones.

  • In Teneriffe and Grand Canary the corpse was simply wrapped up in goat and sheep skins, while in other islands a resinous substance was used to preserve the body, which was then placed in a cave difficult of access, or buried under a tumulus.

  • An unusual find was a Scythian royal grave in a tumulus at Solokha, in 1913.

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Words Starting With

TTUTUM

Words Ending With

SUSLUS

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