Etymology

tumorous

T1U1M3O1R1O1U1S1

Today it means: Pertaining to or having the appearance of a tumor. Full definition →

Latin tumōrōsus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtumōrōsus“inflated, bloated”
  2. English todaytumorous

From Latin tumōrōsus (“inflated, bloated”), from tumor (“swelling, tumor”), from tumeō (“to swell”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.