See also: Tuber

English

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Sweet potatoes with visible tubers
 
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Etymology 1

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From Latin tūber (bump, hump, swelling).

Noun

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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.
  3. (anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.
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Etymology 2

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tube +‎ -er

Noun

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tuber (plural tubers)

  1. One who tubes.

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French

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Etymology

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From tube +‎ -er.

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Verb

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tuber

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

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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Probably from Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (to swell) (though de Vaan is skeptical of the hypothetical morphology).[1]

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Noun

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

singular plural
nominative tūber tūbera
genitive tūberis tūberum
dative tūberī tūberibus
accusative tūber tūbera
ablative tūbere tūberibus
vocative tūber tūbera
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Etymology 2

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See tubus.

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Noun

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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
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Third-declension noun.

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tūber, -eris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 632

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  • 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.

Swedish

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Noun

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tuber

  1. indefinite plural of tub
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