tuba

See also: Tuba and túba

English

A tuba.

Etymology 1

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtjuː.bə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtu.bə/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːbə

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

  1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
    • 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound‎, page 230
      One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
  2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
  3. A large reed stop in organs.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

Noun

tuba (uncountable)

  1. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.

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Etymology 3

From Cebuano tuba.

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

  1. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Noun

tuba

  1. a reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap
  2. a harvest of bananas

Verb

tuba

  1. to harvest banana fruits

Quotations

  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:tuba.

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Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtuba]

Noun

tuba f

  1. tube (a cylindrical container)
  2. tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

Declension

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stuƀ-. Cognate to Livonian tubā, Finnish tupa, Icelandic stofa, German Stube, Swedish stuga.

Noun

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

  1. room, chamber

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French

Noun

tuba m (plural tubas)

  1. tuba
  2. snorkel

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Galician

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

  1. tuba

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtubɒ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tuba (plural tubák)

  1. (music) tuba

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tuba tubák
accusative tubát tubákat
dative tubának tubáknak
instrumental tubával tubákkal
causal-final tubáért tubákért
translative tubává tubákká
terminative tubáig tubákig
essive-formal tubaként tubákként
essive-modal — —
inessive tubában tubákban
superessive tubán tubákon
adessive tubánál tubáknál
illative tubába tubákba
sublative tubára tubákra
allative tubához tubákhoz
elative tubából tubákból
delative tubáról tubákról
ablative tubától tubáktól
Possessive forms of tuba
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tubám tubáim
2nd person sing. tubád tubáid
3rd person sing. tubája tubái
1st person plural tubánk tubáink
2nd person plural tubátok tubáitok
3rd person plural tubájuk tubáik

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uba

Noun

tuba f (plural tube)

  1. (music) tuba
  2. top hat
  3. (anatomy) tube

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Verb

tuba

  1. third-person singular present indicative of tubare
  2. second-person singular imperative of tubare

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly connected to tibia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”) with similarities in meaning and form.

Pronunciation

Noun

tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension

  1. A long trumpet over 1 meter in length.
  2. tube

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tuba tubae
genitive tubae tubārum
dative tubae tubīs
accusative tubam tubās
ablative tubā tubīs
vocative tuba tubae

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Descendants

References

  • tuba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tuba in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • tuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
  • tuba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tuba in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Livonian

Alternative forms

  • (Courland) tubā

Etymology

Related to Finnish tupa.

Noun

tuba

  1. (a small) house

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tuba (compare Indonesian tuba), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba (compare Fijian duva).

Pronunciation

Noun

tuba

  1. poison that is made out of root

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtu.ba/

Noun

tuba f

  1. (music) tuba

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

  1. (music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)
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