fumus

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fumus

1. conditional of fumi

fumus

1. conditional of fumar

From Proto-Italic *fūmos, from earlier *θūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”). Cognates include Ancient Greek θῡμός (thūmós), Sanskrit धूम (dhūmá) and Old Church Slavonic дꙑмъ (dymŭ), English dust.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.mus/, [ˈfuːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.mus/, [ˈfuːmus]

fūmus m (genitive fūmī); second declension

1. smoke, steam, fume
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 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’s 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.