humus

See also: Humus and húmus

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin humus.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: hyo͞o'məs, IPA(key): /ˈhjuːməs/
  • Rhymes: -uːməs

Noun

humus (usually uncountable, plural humuses)

  1. A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Turkish humus or Arabic حُمُّص‎ (ḥummuṣ).

Noun

humus (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of hummus

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

Latin humus

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɦumus]

Noun

humus m

  1. humus

Further reading
  • humus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • humus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɦy.mʏs/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mus

Noun

humus m (uncountable)

  1. humus (soil organic matter)
  2. (by extension) compost

Derived terms

Finnish

(index hu)

Etymology

< Latin humus

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhumus/, [ˈhumus̠]
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mus

Noun

humus

  1. humus

Declension
Inflection of humus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative humus humukset
genitive humuksen humusten
humuksien
partitive humusta humuksia
illative humukseen humuksiin
singular plural
nominative humus humukset
accusative nom. humus humukset
gen. humuksen
genitive humuksen humusten
humuksien
partitive humusta humuksia
inessive humuksessa humuksissa
elative humuksesta humuksista
illative humukseen humuksiin
adessive humuksella humuksilla
ablative humukselta humuksilta
allative humukselle humuksille
essive humuksena humuksina
translative humukseksi humuksiksi
instructive — humuksin
abessive humuksetta humuksitta
comitative — humuksineen

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *homos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰomós, from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”). Cognates include Sanskrit क्ष (kṣa) and Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn). Related to homō (“human being, man”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

humus f (genitive humī); second declension

  1. ground, floor
  2. earth, soil

Inflection

Second declension, with locative.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative humus humī
Genitive humī humōrum
Dative humō humīs
Accusative humum humōs
Ablative humō
humū		 humīs
Vocative hume humī
Locative humī ―

humus is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case (humī); other such nouns include domus and rūs. Also, irregular ablative singular humū once used by Varro.

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • humus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • humus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • humus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “humus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 292

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈxu.mus/

Noun

humus m inan

  1. humus

Declension
declension of humus
singular
nominative humus
genitive humusu
dative humusowi
accusative humus
instrumental humusem
locative humusie
vocative humusie

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • humusowy

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /xǔːmus/
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mus

Noun

húmus m (Cyrillic spelling ху́мус)

  1. humus

Declension
Declension of humus
singular
nominative humus
genitive humusa
dative humusu
accusative humus
vocative humuse
locative humusu
instrumental humusom

Spanish

Noun

humus m (plural humus)

  1. hummus
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