tumour

Meaning

Alternative spelling of tumor

Frequency

C2
Etymology

In summary

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

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