tumulous

English

Etymology

From Latin tumulōsus (“full of hills or hillocks, hilly”), tumulus (“mound, hill, hillock”) +‎ -ōsus, from tumeō (“I swell”).

Adjective

tumulous (comparative more tumulous, superlative most tumulous)

Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
  Tumulous waves

References

tumulous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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