Imus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Origin unidentified.
Proper noun
[edit]Imus (plural Imuses)
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Imus is the 34668th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 652 individuals. Imus is most common among White (83.44%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Imus”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228.
Anagrams
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From imus, imos (“land between the tributary of two rivers”), a reference to the original townsite at Toclong, around the confluence of Imus and Julian rivers. Alternative origins and folk etymologies include derivation from Latin infimus and Spanish céntimos.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔimus/ [ˈʔiː.mʊs]
- Rhymes: -imus
- Syllabification: I‧mus
Proper noun
[edit]Imus (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜓᜐ᜔)
- Imus (city and de jure provincial capital in Cavite, Philippines)
- 1992, Santiago V. Alvarez, The Katipunan and the Revolution: Memoirs of a General : with the Original Tagalog Text, Ateneo University Press, →ISBN:
- Nang makuha na ng mga kastila ang Perez Dasmarinas, ay hindi naluwatan sa kanilang pamamalagi at pag-aayos doon, at muling gumayak ng paglusob sa Imus.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms with unknown etymologies
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- Tagalog terms derived from Latin
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/imus
- Rhymes:Tagalog/imus/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Cities in Cavite, Philippines
- tl:Cities in the Philippines
- tl:Provincial capitals of the Philippines
- tl:Places in Cavite, Philippines
- tl:Places in the Philippines
- Tagalog terms with quotations