See also: Tuber
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞oʹbə(r), IPA(key): /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) enPR: to͞oʹbə(r), IPA(key): /ˈtubɚ/
- Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)
- Homophone: (non-rhotic) tuba
Etymology 1
From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).
Noun
tuber (plural tubers or (uncommon, possibly obsolete) tubera)
- A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
- (horticulture) A thickened rootstock.
- (anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
fleshy underground stem
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anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body
Etymology 2
Noun
tuber (plural tubers)
- One who tubes.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ty.be/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Verb
tuber
Conjugation
Conjugation of tuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tuber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tubant /ty.bɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tubé /ty.be/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tube /tyb/ |
tubes /tyb/ |
tube /tyb/ |
tubons /ty.bɔ̃/ |
tubez /ty.be/ |
tubent /tyb/ |
| imperfect | tubais /ty.bɛ/ |
tubais /ty.bɛ/ |
tubait /ty.bɛ/ |
tubions /ty.bjɔ̃/ |
tubiez /ty.bje/ |
tubaient /ty.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tubai /ty.be/ |
tubas /ty.ba/ |
tuba /ty.ba/ |
tubâmes /ty.bam/ |
tubâtes /ty.bat/ |
tubèrent /ty.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | tuberai /ty.bʁe/ |
tuberas /ty.bʁa/ |
tubera /ty.bʁa/ |
tuberons /ty.bʁɔ̃/ |
tuberez /ty.bʁe/ |
tuberont /ty.bʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/ |
tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/ |
tuberait /ty.bʁɛ/ |
tuberions /ty.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tuberiez /ty.bə.ʁje/ |
tuberaient /ty.bʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tube /tyb/ |
tubes /tyb/ |
tube /tyb/ |
tubions /ty.bjɔ̃/ |
tubiez /ty.bje/ |
tubent /tyb/ |
| imperfect2 | tubasse /ty.bas/ |
tubasses /ty.bas/ |
tubât /ty.ba/ |
tubassions /ty.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
tubassiez /ty.ba.sje/ |
tubassent /ty.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tube /tyb/ |
— | tubons /ty.bɔ̃/ |
tubez /ty.be/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “tuber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Probably from Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”) (though De Vaan is skeptical of the hypothetical morphology).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.bɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.ber]
Noun
tūber n (genitive tūberis); third declension
- a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
- the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots
- a truffle (any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tūber | tūbera |
| genitive | tūberis | tūberum |
| dative | tūberī | tūberibus |
| accusative | tūber | tūbera |
| ablative | tūbere | tūberibus |
| vocative | tūber | tūbera |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: tuber
- → Portuguese: túbera
- → Spanish: tubera
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tūbellum (diminutive)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tufera
Etymology 2
See tubus.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʊ.bɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.ber]
Noun
tuber m or f (genitive tuberis); third declension
- (usually feminine) a kind of tree or bush of foreign origin, possibly the azarole (Crataegus azarolus)
- (usually masculine) the fruit of the above tree
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tuber | tuberēs |
| genitive | tuberis | tuberum |
| dative | tuberī | tuberibus |
| accusative | tuberem | tuberēs |
| ablative | tubere | tuberibus |
| vocative | tuber | tuberēs |
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “tūber, -eris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 632
Further reading
- “tuber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tuber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tuber”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Swedish
Noun
tuber
- indefinite plural of tub