-tum

See also: tum, túm, tüm, and -tum-

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German -tuom, from Old High German -tuom, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz (“-dom”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos (“thing put”). Cognate with English -dom, Dutch -dom, Swedish -dom.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tuːm/, [tʰuːm]
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Suffix

-tum n or m (genitive -tums or -tumes, plural -tümer)

  1. A suffix used to derive abstract nouns: -dom.

Declension
Declension of -tum
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der -tum die -tümer
genitive eines des -tumes,
-tums		 der -tümer
dative einem dem -tum,
-tume1		 den -tümern
accusative einen den -tum die -tümer
1Now uncommon, see notes

See also
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:German_words_suffixed_with_-tum' title='Category:German words suffixed with -tum'>German words suffixed with -tum</a>

References
  1. Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “-tum”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology 1

From -tus (forming adjectives).

Suffix

-tum

  1. masculine accusative singular of -tus
  2. neuter nominative singular of -tus
  3. neuter accusative singular of -tus
  4. neuter vocative singular of -tus

Etymology 2

From -tus (forming nouns of action).

Suffix

-tum

  1. accusative singular of -tus
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