Tumid
/ˈtjuːmɪd/noun
Swollen or puffed up; also overly pompous or bombastic in style.
Did you know?Tumid descends from Latin *tumidus*, from *tumēre* meaning “to swell,” the same root behind *tumor*—so the word has always carried the eerie image of something rising from within.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*tewh₂-
“to swell, be inflated”
Latin
Latin
tumēre
“to swell”
Latin
Latin
tumidus
“swollen, puffed up; figuratively, bombastic”
Old French
OF
tumide
“swollen, tumid”
Middle English
English
tumid
“swollen; figuratively, inflated in style”
Modern English
English
tumid
“swollen or pompous”