cumulus

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs/

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• Rhymes: -uːmjələs
• Hyphenation: cu‧mu‧lus

cumulus (plural cumuli)

1. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
   • 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,

     Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

2. A mound or heap.

Borrowed from Latin cumulus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumulus/, [ˈkumulus̠]
• Syllabification^(key): cu‧mu‧lus

cumulus

1. cumulus (cloud)

• cumuluspilvi
• kumpupilvi

cumulus m (plural cumulus)

1. cumulus

• “cumulus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Indo-European *ku-m-olo, from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”); see also Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), Ancient Greek κύω (kúō), and Sanskrit श्वयति (śvayati, “swell”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkʊmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu.lus/, [ˈkuːmulus]

cumulus m (genitive cumulī); second declension

1. heap, pile

   Synonyms: acervus, moles, massa

2. surplus
3. summit

Second-declension noun.

• cumulō

• “cumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cumulus 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)
• cumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
    
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: aliquid felicitatis cumulum affert
    
  • to add the crowning point to a person's joy: cumulum gaudii alicui afferre (vid. sect. V. 6) (Fam. 16. 21. 1)
    
• cumulus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From French cumulus, from Latin cumulus.

cumulus m (uncountable)

1. cumulus