tuber

See also: Tuber

English

Sweet potatoes with visible tubers

Etymology

From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞oʹbə(r), IPA^(key): /tjuːbə(ɹ)/
(General American) enPR: to͞oʹbə(r), IPA^(key): /tubɚ/
Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)

Noun

tuber (plural tubers)

A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
(horticulture) A thickened rootstock.
(anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.

Related terms

tubercle
tubercular

Translations

fleshy underground stem

Albanian: zhardhok (sq) m
Armenian: կոճղեզ (hy) (kočłez), պալար (hy) (palar)
Belarusian: бу́льба (be) f (búlʹba), клу́бень m (klúbjenʹ), бу́льбіна f (búlʹbina)
Bikol Central: duma
Bulgarian: клу́бен m (klúben), грудка f (grudka)
Burmese: ဥ (my) (u.)
Catalan: tubercle (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 塊莖／块茎 (zh) (kuàijīng), 塊根／块根 (zh) (kuàigēn), 球根 (zh) (qiúgēn)
Czech: bulva (cs) f, hlíza (cs) f
Danish: knold
Dutch: knol (nl)
Finnish: mukula (fi)
French: tubercule (fr)
Georgian: ბოლქვი (bolkvi), გორგლი (gorgli)
German: Knolle (de) f, Wurzelknolle f
Hungarian: gumó (hu)
Ido: tuberkulo (io)
Indonesian: umbi (id)
Irish: tiúbar m
Italian: tubero (it) m
Japanese: 芋 (ja) (いも, imo)
Kannada: ಗಡ್ಡೆ (kn) (gaḍḍe)
Khmer: មើម (km) (məəm)
Korean: 괴경 (goegyeong)
Lao: ມັນ (man)
Malay: ubi (ms), tuber (ms)
Malayalam: കിഴങ്ങ് (ml) (kiḻaṅṅŭ)
Maori: kōpura
Norwegian:
Bokmål: knoll (no) m
Nynorsk: knoll m
Polish: bulwa (pl) f
Portuguese: tubérculo (pt)
Russian: клу́бень (ru) m (klúbenʹ)
Spanish: tubérculo (es)
Swedish: knöl (sv) c, rotknöl c, stamknöl c (botanical, e.g. potato), pålrot (sv) c (botanical, e.g. carrot), rotfrukt (sv) c (common, edible underground parts)
Tagalog: busnginsuloy, lamang-lupa
Thai: มัน (th) (man)
Ukrainian: бу́льба (uk) f (búlʹba)
Vietnamese: củ (vi)
Welsh: cloronen f

horticulture: thickened rootstock

Finnish: mukula (fi)

anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body

Bulgarian: буца (bg) f (buca)
French: protubérance (fr)

Anagrams

Ubert, brute, buret, rebut

French

Etymology

From tube +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ty.be/
Audio (file)

Verb

tuber

to make into a tube shape
to put into a tube

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	tuber
present participle or gerund¹	simple	tubant /ty.bɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tubé /ty.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tube /tyb/	tubes /tyb/	tube /tyb/	tubons /ty.bɔ̃/	tubez /ty.be/	tubent /tyb/
	imperfect	tubais /ty.bɛ/	tubais /ty.bɛ/	tubait /ty.bɛ/	tubions /ty.bjɔ̃/	tubiez /ty.bje/	tubaient /ty.bɛ/
	past historic²	tubai /ty.be/	tubas /ty.ba/	tuba /ty.ba/	tubâmes /ty.bam/	tubâtes /ty.bat/	tubèrent /ty.bɛʁ/
	future	tuberai /ty.bʁe/	tuberas /ty.bʁa/	tubera /ty.bʁa/	tuberons /ty.bʁɔ̃/	tuberez /ty.bʁe/	tuberont /ty.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/	tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/	tuberait /ty.bʁɛ/	tuberions /ty.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	tuberiez /ty.bə.ʁje/	tuberaient /ty.bʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tube /tyb/	tubes /tyb/	tube /tyb/	tubions /ty.bjɔ̃/	tubiez /ty.bje/	tubent /tyb/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	tubasse /ty.bas/	tubasses /ty.bas/	tubât /ty.ba/	tubassions /ty.ba.sjɔ̃/	tubassiez /ty.ba.sje/	tubassent /ty.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	tube /tyb/	—	tubons /ty.bɔ̃/	tubez /ty.be/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Anagrams

brute, buter, rebut

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.ber/, [ˈt̪uːbɛr]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ber/, [ˈt̪uːber]

Noun

tūber n (genitive tūberis); third declension

a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots
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

extūberō
prōtūberō
tūberātus
tūberculum
tūberōsus

Descendants

→ English: tuber
→ Portuguese: túbera
→ Spanish: tubera
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tūbellum (diminutive)
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: todiyu, todiellu, todíu
- Old Spanish: touiello
  - Spanish: tobillo
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tufera
- Old Catalan: tòfera
  - Catalan: tòfona
- Old Occitan: trufa
  - Occitan: trufa
  - → Catalan: trufa
  - → Old French: trufe
    - French: truffe
      - → Greek: τρούφα (troúfa)
      - → Japanese: トリュフ
      - → Romanian: trufă
    - ⇒ Old French: trufle (variant)
      - → Alemannic German: trüffulu, trifflu (Italian Walser)
      - → Danish: trøffel
      - → Dutch: truffel
      - → English: truffle
      - → Faroese: trøfla
      - → German: Trüffel (see there for further descendants)
      - → Norwegian: trøffel
      - → Polish: trufla
      - → Swedish: tryffel
        → Finnish: tryffeli
  - → Portuguese: trufa
  - → Spanish: trufa
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (Vulgar equivalent to Classical Latin terrae tūber (“tuber of the earth”))
  - Italian: tartufo (see there for further descendants)
    - ⇒ Italian: tartufolo (diminutive) (see there for further descendants)
  - Rhaeto-Romance:
    - Romansch: tartuffel, hardefel, truffel, tiffel, ardöffel

Etymology 2

See tubus

Alternative forms

tubur

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ber/, [ˈt̪ʊbɛr]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ber/, [ˈt̪uːber]

Noun

tuber m or f (genitive tuberis); third declension

(usually feminine) a kind of tree or bush of foreign origin, possibly the azarole (Crataegus azarolus)
(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

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

tuber

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