fumus

• IPA^(key): /ˈfumus/

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• Rhymes: -umus
• Syllabification: fu‧mus

fumus

1. conditional of fumi

fumus

1. conditional of fumar

Inherited from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from earlier *þūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”).^[1]

Cognates include Ancient Greek θῡμός (thūmós), Sanskrit धूम (dhūmá), Old Church Slavonic дꙑмъ (dymŭ), and English dust.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.mus]

fūmus m (genitive fūmī); second declension

1. smoke, steam, fume
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.608–609:

     “‘Hīc, ubi disiectās mōlēs āvolsaque saxīs
     saxa vidēs mixtōque undantem pulvere fūmum, [...].’”

     “‘Here, where piles [of masonry] have been scattered, and stones torn from stone, and you see billowing smoke mixed with dust, [...].’”
     (The destruction of Troy.)

2. indication, sign

   fūmus bonī iūris ― sign of good law

Second-declension noun.

• fūmōs vēndō, fūmum vēndō

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