German

Noun

Humus m ‎(genitive Humus or Humuses, no plural)

1. humus

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Translations

See also

• compost
• mulch

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Turkish humus or Arabic حُمُّص ‎(ḥummuṣ).

Noun

humus ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hummus

Finnish

(index hu)

Etymology

< Latin humus

Pronunciation

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

Noun

humus

1. humus

Declension

Latin

Alternative forms

• umus
• humum

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ɣomos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm. Cognates include Sanskrit क्ष ‎(kṣa) and Ancient Greek χθών ‎(khthṓn). Related to homō ‎(“human being, man”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.mus/, [ˈhʊ.mʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mus/, [ˈuː.mus]

Noun

humus f ‎(genitive humī); second declension

1. ground
2. earth, soil

Inflection

Second declension, 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 humu once used by Varro.

Derived terms

• humilis
• humō

Descendants

• English: humus
• French: humus
• German: Humus
• Russian: гу́мус ‎(gúmus)
• Spanish: humus

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “humus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “humus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 292

Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin humus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxumus/

Noun

humus m inan

1. humus

Declension

Synonyms

• próchnica

Derived terms

• humusowy

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin humus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

húmus m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ху́мус)

1. humus

Declension

Spanish

Noun

humus m ‎(plural humus)

1. hummus