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• tumour (Commonwealth)

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.

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

tumor (plural tumors) (American spelling)

1. (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
   • 2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 1 December 2022:
     It’s possible that some microbes don’t just take up residence in tumors but help them grow. They may cloak the tumor from the immune system, neutralize drugs or help tumors spread through the body.

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

• (an abnormal growth): neoplasm

• brain tumor

• granular cell tumor

• Klatskin tumor

• Pancoast tumor

• Warthin's tumor

• Wilms tumor

• See also Thesaurus:tumor

• aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome

• antitumor

• devil facial tumor disease

• hypertumor

• intratumor

• microtumor

• neurotumor

• nontumor

• peritumor

• posttumor

• pretumor

• protumor

• pseudotumor

• tumorectomy

• tumored

• tumorgenic

• tumoricide

• tumorigenesis

• tumorigenic

• tumoristatic

• tumoritropic

• tumorless

• tumorlike

• tumor necrosis factor

• tumorogenesis

• tumorogenic

• tumoroid

• tumorolytic

• tumoromics

• tumorosphere

• tumorsphere

• Wilms' tumor

• xenotumor

• contumely

• tumescent

• tumid

• tumult

• → Welsh: tiwmor

oncology, pathology: an abnormal growth

• Afrikaans: gewas (af)

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can

• Arabic: وَرَم m (waram)

• Armenian: ուռուցք (hy) (uṙucʻkʻ)

• Azerbaijani: şiş (az)

• Bashkir: шеш (şeş), яман шеш (yaman şeş)

• Belarusian: пухлі́на f (puxlína), во́пух m (vópux)

• Bulgarian: тумор (bg) m (tumor)

• Burmese: အကျိတ် (my) (a.kyit)

• Catalan: tumor (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 腫瘤 / 肿瘤 (zh) (zhǒngliú), 瘤子 (zh) (liúzi)

• Crimean Tatar: şişik

• Czech: nádor (cs) m

• Danish: svulst (da) c, tumor c

• Dutch: tumor (nl) m, gezwel (nl) n

• Esperanto: tumoro

• Estonian: kasvaja

• Finnish: kasvain (fi)

• French: tumeur (fr) f

• Galician: tumor (gl) m

• Georgian: სიმსივნე (simsivne)

• German: Tumor (de) m, Geschwulst (de) f or n

• Greek: όγκος (el) m (ógkos)
  Ancient Greek: ἀθήρωμα n (athḗrōma), κανθύλη f (kanthúlē)

• Hindi: फुलाव (hi) m (phulāv), नववर्धन m (navvardhan), ट्यूमर m (ṭyūmar)

• Hungarian: daganat (hu)

• Icelandic: æxli n, hnútur m

• Irish: siad m

• Italian: tumore (it) m

• Japanese: 腫瘍 (ja) (しゅよう, shuyō)

• Kannada: ಗಂತಿ (kn) (ganti), ಗಡ್ಡೆ (kn) (gaḍḍe)

• Kazakh: ісік (ısık)

• Khmer: ដុំសាច់ (domsac)

• Korean: 종양(腫瘍) (ko) (jong'yang)

• Lao: ນໍ (nǭ)

• Latin: tumor m

• Latvian: audzējs (lv) m

• Macedonian: тумор m (tumor)

• Malagasy: fivontosana (mg), zihitra (mg)

• Malay: ketumbuhan, tumor

• Māori: tuma, koropuku

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can

• Norman: chancre m

• Persian: تومور (fa) (tumor)

• Polish: guz (pl) m, nowotwór (pl) m, opuchlizna (pl) f

• Portuguese: tumor (pt) m

• Romanian: tumoare (ro) f

• Russian: о́пухоль (ru) f (ópuxolʹ)

• Scots: clyre

• Scottish Gaelic: pluc m, at m

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ту̑мор m
  Latin: tȗmor (sh) m

• Slovak: nádor (sk) m

• Spanish: tumor (es) m

• Swedish: tumör (sv)

• Tamil: கட்டி (ta) (kaṭṭi)

• Tatar: шеш (tt) (şeş)

• Thai: เนื้องอก (th) (nʉ́ʉa-ngɔ̂ɔk)

• Tibetan: སྐྲན (skran)

• Turkish: tümör (tr), ur (tr), verem (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: شیش (şiş), ورم (verem), یومرو (yumru)

• Ukrainian: пухли́на f (puxlýna), о́пух m (ópux)

• Uzbek: shish (uz)

• Vietnamese: u (vi)

• Welsh: tiwmor (cy) m

• Yakut: искэн (isken)

• ǃXóõ: gǁkxʻáã

• tumor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

tumor m (plural tumors)

1. tumor

• IPA(key): [ˈtumor]

tumor m inan

1. tumor
   Synonym: nádor

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

From Latin tumor.

tumor c (singular definite tumoren, plural indefinite tumorer)

1. (oncology) tumour

• knude
• hjernetumor
• “tumor” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

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

1. tumour, swelling

• gezwel
• hersentumor

tumor (plural tumores)

1. tumor

• tumoric
• tumorose

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin tumor

From tumeō (“to bulge; to swell”) + -or.

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

tumor m (genitive tumōris); third declension

1. the state of being swollen
2. swelling; tumor
   Synonyms: tumentia, tumiditās
3. the swell of the sea
4. elevation or swelling in the ground
   Tumor ille locī permānsit, et altī collis habet speciem.
   That elevation of the place remained and it has the appearance of a high hill.
5. (figuratively) commotion; fermentation; excitement; arrogance
6. (rhetoric) bombast (inflated or pompous style)

Third-declension noun.

• tumōrōsus

• tumefaciō

• tumentia

• tumeō

• tumēscō

• tumidē

• tumiditās

• tumidō

• tumidōsus

• tumidulus

• tumidus

• tumulāmen

• tumulō

• tumulōsus

• tumulum

• tumulus

• Catalan: tumor

• English: tumor, tumour

• French: tumeur

• Italian: tumore

• Portuguese: tumor

• Spanish: tumor

• Romanian: tumoare

• “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, 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.

• tümur

• IPA(key): /tyˈmur/

tumor m (plural **tumor)

1. tumor

Learned borrowing from Latin tumor.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoh]

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoh]

  • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /tuˈmoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA(key): /tuˈmoɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈmoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈmoɾ/

  • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈmo.ɾi/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ

• Hyphenation: tu‧mor

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. (oncology, pathology) tumor (an abnormal growth)
2. boil (accumulation of pus)
   Synonyms: abcesso, furúnculo, pústula, carbúnculo, cisto, íngua, bubão

• → Hunsrik: Tumoer
• “tumor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tumor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• IPA(key): /tûːmor/
• Hyphenation: tu‧mor

tȗmor m inan (Cyrillic spelling ту̑мор)

1. tumor

From Latin tumor.

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

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. tumor

• antitumoral

• tumoral

• tumoroso

• “tumor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish tumor, from Latin tumor.

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

tumór (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋᜓᜇ᜔)

1. tumor (US); tumour (UK)
2. boil
   Synonyms: pigsa, bukol

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