rumor

• rumour (UK, Commonwealth, International)

From Middle English rumour, borrowed from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹumɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːmə(r)

rumor (countable and uncountable, plural rumors)

1. (US, countable) A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.

   There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.

2. (US, uncountable) Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.

   They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor.

• (piece of information):
• (information): gossip, hearsay, talk, tittle-tattle

• information

rumor (third-person singular simple present rumors, present participle rumoring, simple past and past participle rumored)

1. (transitive, usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.

   John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.

From Latin rumor, rumorem.

rumor m (plural rumors)

1. rumor

• rumorejar

• “rumor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Proto-Indo-European *rAwə- (“to shout, to roar”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈruː.mor/, [ˈruː.mɔr]

rūmor m (genitive rūmōris); third declension

1. rumor
2. rustle, murmur, a murmuring
3. The voice of the people

Third declension.

• rumor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rumor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rumor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• rumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • report says; people say: rumor, fama, sermo est or manat
    
  • a rumour is prevalent: rumor, fama viget
    
  • a report, an impression is gaining ground: rumor increbrescit
    
  • to spread a rumour: rumorem spargere
    
  • vague rumours reach us: dubii rumores afferuntur ad nos
    

From Latin rumor, rumorem.

rumor m (plural rumores)

1. rumour (statement or claim from no known reliable source)
2. continuous noise
   • 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço:

     No confuso rumor que se formava, destacavam-se risos, sons de vozes que altercavam, sem se saber de onde, grasnar de marrecos, cantar de galos, cacarejar de galinhas.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:rumor.

Borrowed from Latin rumor, rumorem[1].

rumor m (plural rumores)

1. rumor
2. murmur

• rumorear

• “rumor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.