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, 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)
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

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 or 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
Declension

Third-declension noun.

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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