tuba

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.bə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.bə/

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• Rhymes: -uːbə

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.

• grunt-horn

• euphonium, sousaphone
• tube
• tubular
• corno basso (keyed bass horn)
• bombardon
• ophicleide
• valve-ophicleide
• bucina
• cornu

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• tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

tuba (uncountable)

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

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From Cebuano tuba.

tuba (plural tubas)

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

Latin tuba

tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.

• Batu, Taub, abut, batu, buat, buta, tabu

tuba

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

tuba

1. to harvest banana fruits

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

• bahal
• bahalina

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuba]

tuba f

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

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

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

1. room, chamber

• elutuba

tuba m (plural tubas)

1. tuba
2. snorkel

• “tuba” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• buta

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. tuba

• IPA^(key): [ˈtubɒ]

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• Hyphenation: tu‧ba

tuba (plural tubák)

1. (music) tuba

• Rhymes: -uba

tuba f (plural tube)

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

• (top hat) cilindro
• (tube) tuba di Falloppio

• tubarico

• elicone
• sousaphone
• bombardone
• tuba bassa
• tuba contrabbassa
• tuba tenore
• euphonium
• tuba grave
• tuba wagneriana

tuba

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

• tabù

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/, [ˈtʊ.ba]

tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension

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

First declension.

• tubicen

• tubus

• English: tuba
• French: tuba
• Galician: tuba
• Italian: tuba
• Russian: ту́ба (túba)

• 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.

• (Courland) tubā

From Proto-Finnic *tupa. Related to Finnish tupa.

tuba

1. (a small) house

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

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /tubə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /tuba/
• Rhymes: -ubə, -bə, -ə

tuba

1. poison that is made out of root

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/

tuba f

1. (music) tuba

tuba f (plural tubas)

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