English

Noun

tum ‎(plural tums)

1. shortened form of tummy

Anagrams

• MTU
• UTM

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative of *só. Confer with its feminine form Latin tam, as in cum-quam, num-nam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tum/

Adverb

tum ‎(not comparable)

1. then, thereupon

   Tum Caecilius in horto sedet. - Then Caecilius sits in the garden.

2. at the time, at that time, then
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1

     Ea tum cura maxime intentos habebat Romanos, non ab ira tantum, quae in nullam unquam ciuitatem iustior fuit, quam quod urbs tam nobilis ac potens, sicut defectione sua traxerat aliquot populos, ita recepta inclinatura rursus animos uidebatur ad ueteris imperii respectum.

     This concern in particular troubled the mindful Romans at the time, not so much because of anger, which has never been more justified against any other city, rather because a city so noble and powerful, in the same way that it had attracted the support of a number of communities by its revolt, was thought would again turn attention back towards respect for the previous government once recaptured.

3. further on

   ...tum silvis scaena coruscis... - Aeneid, Book 1, Line 164

Synonyms

• (then): deinde

Derived terms

• tunc

References

• tum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at the same moment that, precisely when: eo ipso tempore, cum; tum ipsum, cum
    
  • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
    
  • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, vir omnium, qui tum fuerunt, clarissimus
    
  • I was ten years old at the time: tum habebam decem annos
    
  • to be sound asleep: sopītum esse
    
  • to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    
  • a hand-to-hand engagement ensued: tum pes cum pede collatus est (Liv. 28. 2)
    

Lojban

Rafsi

tum

1. rafsi of tumla.

Novial

Pronoun

tum

1. accusative form of tu

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tummaid ‎(“dips, plunges, immerses”).

Verb

tum ‎(past thum, future tumaidh, verbal noun tumadh, past participle tumta)

1. plunge, immerse, dip, duck, steep

References

• “tummaid, tu(i)mmid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9

Swedish

Noun

tum c

1. inch; a measure of length

Declension

Usage notes

At least three different lengths can be intended: before 1855 it corresponded to 24.74 mm (also known as verktum); between 1855 and 1889 it was 29.69 mm (decimaltum). Today it mainly refers to imperial inches (engelsk tum), i.e. 25.40 mm.

Related terms

• decimaltum
• fyrtumsspik
• tumgänga
• tumstjock
• tumstock
• verktum

Tabasco Zoque

Numeral

tum

1. one

References

• A. G. de León G., El ayapaneco: una variante del zoqueano en Ja Chontalpa tabasquena [The Ayapaneco dialect: a variant of the Zoque language in the Chontalpa region of Tabasco]

Volapük

Numeral

tum

1. (cardinal) hundred

Usage notes

This word must be preceded by a numeral for a single-digit number, so "one hundred" is expressed in Volapük as "baltum."