Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. · Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. · Report, news, information in general. · Fame, reputation.
To tell a rumor about; to gossip.
From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).
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