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A fancy word for a dirt pile someone important is buried under.
means An ancient burial mound raised over a grave, built up from earth and stone into a rounded hill.
from Straight from Latin tumulus, meaning 'mound' or 'heap,' itself from the verb tumere, 'to swell.' The same swelling root gives English words like tumor and tumescent — so a tumulus is, etymologically, the earth itself swollen up over the dead.
- literal meaning
- latin for small hill or mound
- construction method
- earth or stones heaped over a burial
- also called
- barrow in english, kurgan in eurasia
- plural form
- tumuli, which sounds oddly festive