humus

Borrowed from Latin humus.

• enPR: hyo͞o'məs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməs/
• Rhymes: -uːməs

humus (usually uncountable, plural humuses)

1. A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms.

• compost
• mulch

Borrowed from Turkish humus or Arabic حُمُّص‎ (ḥummuṣ).

humus (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hummus (“chickpea dip”)

• mu shu

Learned borrowing from Latin humus (“earth, soil”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mus/

humus m (plural humusos)

1. humus

• húmic

• “humus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin humus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦumus]
• Hyphenation: hu‧mus

humus m inan

1. humus

• humus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• humus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Latin humus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦy.mʏs/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mus

humus m (uncountable)

1. humus (soil organic matter)
2. (by extension) compost

• humusrijk

< Latin humus

• IPA^(key): /ˈhumus/, [ˈhumus̠]
• Rhymes: -umus
• Syllabification^(key): hu‧mus

humus

1. humus

humus m (uncountable)

1. humus

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

• umus
• humum

From Proto-Italic *homos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰomós, from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”). Cognates include Sanskrit क्ष (kṣa), Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn), and Old Church Slavonic землꙗ (zemlja). Related to homō (“human being, man”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.mus/, [ˈhʊmʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mus/, [ˈuːmus]

humus f (genitive humī); second declension

1. ground, floor
2. earth, soil
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.559-560:

     [Triptolemus] prīmus arābit et seret et culta praemia tollet humō

     [Triptolemus] will be the first to plow and sow and take away the rewards from cultivated soil.
     (See Triptolemus, Demophon of Eleusis, and Celeus for the ancient Greek myths about a royal family who are presented as humble country folk in the Fasti.)

   Synonyms: terra, solum, tellūs

Second-declension noun, with locative.

humus is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case (humī); other such nouns include domus and rūs. Also, irregular ablative singular humū once used by Varro.

• humilis
• humō

• → Armenian: հումուս (humus)
• → Czech: humus
• → Dutch: humus
• → English: humus
• → Finnish: humus
• → French: humus
  • → Turkish: humus
• → Galician: humus
• → German: Humus
• → Greek: χούμος (choúmos)
• → Irish: húmas
• → Italian: umus
• → Malay: humus
• → Polish: humus
• → Portuguese: húmus, humo
• → Romanian: humus, humă
• → Russian: гу́мус (gúmus)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ху́мус (húmus)
• → Spanish: humus
• → Swedish: humus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈxu.mus/

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• Rhymes: -umus
• Syllabification: hu‧mus

Borrowed from Latin humus.

humus m inan

1. humus

   Synonym: próchnica

Borrowed from Arabic حمص‎.

humus m inan

1. hummus

   Synonym: hummus

• humus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• humus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French humus, from Latin humus.

humus n (uncountable)

1. humus (in the soil)

Borrowed from Latin humus.

• IPA^(key): /xǔːmus/
• Hyphenation: hu‧mus

húmus m (Cyrillic spelling ху́мус)

1. humus

humus m (plural humus)

1. hummus
2. humus

• “humus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From French humus.

humus (definite accusative humusu, plural humuslar)

1. humus

From Arabic حُمُّص‎ (ḥummuṣ).

humus (definite accusative humusu, plural humuslar)

1. hummus

• humus in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu