# tumor
## English
### Alternative forms

* tumour (Commonwealth)

### Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /tjuː.mə/
* (US) IPA: /tuː.məɹ/
* Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

tumor (plural tumors) (American spelling)
* (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
    a benign tumor
    a malignant tumor
    brain tumor
    identify tumor
    pancreatic tumor
    remove a tumor
    take a tumor
    stomach tumor

#### Usage notes

Tumor is the standard US spelling and an alternative spelling in Canada. Tumour is the standard modern spelling elsewhere.

#### Synonyms

* (an abnormal growth): neoplasm

#### Hyponyms

* brain tumor
* granular cell tumor
* Klatskin tumor
* Pancoast tumor
* Warthin's tumor
* Wilms tumor
* See also Thesaurus:tumor

#### Derived terms

* aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
* antitumor
* devil facial tumor disease
* hypertumor
* intratumor
* microtumor
* neurotumor
* nontumor
* peritumor
* posttumor
* pretumor
* protumor
* pseudotumor
* tumorectomy
* tumored
* tumorgenic
* tumoricide
* tumorigenesis
* tumorigenic
* tumoristatic
* tumoritropic
* tumorless
* tumorlike
* tumor necrosis factor
* tumorogenesis
* tumorogenic
* tumoroid
* tumorolytic
* tumoromics
* tumorosphere
* tumorsphere
* xenotumor

#### Related terms

* contumely
* tumescent
* tumid
* tumult

#### Translations
### References

* tumor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [tuˈmor]

### Noun

tumor m (plural tumors)
* tumor

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtumor]

### Noun

tumor m inan
* tumor
    Synonym: nádor

#### See also

* novotvar

### Further reading

* “tumor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “tumor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“I bulge, swell”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈty.mɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tu‧mor
* Rhymes: -ymɔr

### Noun

tumor m (plural tumoren, diminutive tumortje n)
* tumour, swelling

#### Synonyms

* gezwel

#### Derived terms

* hersentumor

## Interlingua
### Noun

tumor (plural tumores)
* tumor

#### Related terms

* tumoric
* tumorose

## Latin
### Etymology

From tumeō (“I bulge, swell”) +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪ʊmɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪uːmor]

### Noun

tumor m (genitive tumōris); third declension
* The state of being swollen.
* A swelling, tumor.
* The swell of the sea.
* (of the ground) An elevation, swelling.
* (figuratively) A commotion, fermentation, excitement; arrogance.
* (rhetoric) An inflated or pompous style, bombast.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* (swelling): tumentia, tumiditās

#### Derived terms

* tumōrōsus

#### Related terms

* tumefaciō
* tumentia
* tumeō
* tumēscō
* tumidē
* tumiditās
* tumidō
* tumidōsus
* tumidulus
* tumidus
* tumulāmen
* tumulō
* tumulōsus
* tumulus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: tumor
* English: tumor, tumour
* French: tumeur
* Italian: tumore
* Portuguese: tumor
* Spanish: tumor
* Romanian: tumoare

### References

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

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* tümur

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tyˈmur/

### Noun

tumor m (plural tumor)
* tumor

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tumor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /tuˈmoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tuˈmoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tuˈmoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tuˈmoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tuˈmo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: tu‧mor

### Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)
* (oncology, pathology) tumor (an abnormal growth)
* boil (accumulation of pus)
    Synonyms: abcesso, furúnculo, pústula, carbúnculo, cisto, íngua, bubão

#### Descendants

* → Hunsrik: Tumoer

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tûːmor/
* Hyphenation: tu‧mor

### Noun

tȗmor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑мор)
* tumor

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin tumor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tuˈmoɾ/ [t̪uˈmoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: tu‧mor

### Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)
* tumor

#### Derived terms

* antitumoral
* tumoral
* tumoroso

### Further reading

* “tumor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tumor, from Latin tumor.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /tuˈmoɾ/ [t̪ʊˈmoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: tu‧mor

### Noun

tumór (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋᜓᜇ᜔)
* tumor (US); tumour (UK)
* boil
    Synonyms: pigsa, bukol

#### See also

* pamamaga
* baga

### Further reading

* “tumor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018