tuberculum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tuberculum.

Noun

tuberculum (plural tubercula)

tubercle

Latin

Etymology

From tuber (“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

tuberculum n (genitive tuberculi); second declension

diminutive of tuber
a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle

References

tuberculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
tuberculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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