tuber

See also: Tuber

English

Sweet potatoes with visible tubers

Etymology

From Latin tūber (bump, hump, swelling).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tyo͞o'bə(r), IPA(key): /tjuːbə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -uːbə(r)

Noun

tuber (plural tubers)

  1. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot.
  2. (horticulture) A thickened rootstock.

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French

Etymology

From tube + -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tybe/

Verb

tuber

  1. to make into a tube shape
  2. to put into a tube

Conjugation

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (to swell).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtuː.ber/, [ˈtuː.bɛr]

Noun

tūber n (genitive tūberis); third declension

  1. a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
  2. the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots
  3. a truffle (any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber)
Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tūber tūbera
genitive tūberis tūberum
dative tūberī tūberibus
accusative tūber tūbera
ablative tūbere tūberibus
vocative tūber tūbera
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See tubus

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.ber/, [ˈtʊ.bɛr]

Noun

tuber m, f (genitive tuberis); third declension

  1. (usually feminine) a kind of tree or bush of foreign origin, possibly the azarole (Crataegus azarolus)
  2. (usually masculine) the fruit of the above tree
Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tuber tuberēs
genitive tuberis tuberum
dative tuberī tuberibus
accusative tuberem tuberēs
ablative tubere tuberibus
vocative tuber tuberēs
Alternative forms
  • tubur

References

  • 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
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