thuminus

Latin

Alternative forms

• tuminus, tumminus

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ثُمُن (ṯumun, “an eighth”). Compare Sicilian tùmminu, Maltese tomna. Compare tumulus.

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Noun

thuminus m (genitive thuminī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A unit of measure used in Sicily, Naples and Malta.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	thuminus	thuminī
genitive	thuminī	thuminōrum
dative	thuminō	thuminīs
accusative	thuminum	thuminōs
ablative	thuminō	thuminīs
vocative	thumine	thuminī

References

• "thuminus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)