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, as for example a potato or arrowroot.
2. (horticulture) A thickened "root-stock".

Related terms

• tubercle
• tubercular

Translations

fleshy underground stem

• Albanian: zhardhok (sq) m
• Belarusian: бульба f (bulʹba)
• Catalan: tubercle (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塊莖 (zh), 块茎 (zh) (kuàijīng), 塊根 (zh), 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)
• Italian: tubero m
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: ubi, tuber
• 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 c (botanical, e.g. carrot), rotfrukt (sv) c (common, edible underground parts)
• Tagalog: busnginsuloy, lamang-lupa
• Ukrainian: бульба (uk) f (bulʹba)

Anagrams

• brute, buret, rebut

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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

  Conjugation of tuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		tuber			avoir tubé
gerund		en tubant			en ayant tubé
present participle		tubant /ty.bɑ̃/
past participle		tubé /ty.be/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	tube /tyb/	tubes /tyb/	tube /tyb/	tubions /ty.bjɔ̃/	tubiez /ty.bje/	tubent /tyb/
	imperfect1	tubasse /ty.bas/	tubasses /ty.bas/	tubât /ty.ba/	tubassions /ty.ba.sjɔ̃/	tubassiez /ty.ba.sje/	tubassent /ty.bas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	tube /tyb/	—	tubons /ty.bɔ̃/	tubez /ty.be/	—
1literary tenses

Anagrams

• brute, buter, rebut

Further reading

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

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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)

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tūber	tūbera
genitive	tūberis	tūberum
dative	tūberī	tūberibus
accusative	tūber	tūbera
ablative	tūbere	tūberibus
vocative	tūber	tūbera

Derived terms

Terms derived from tuber

• extūberō
• prōtūberō

• tūberātus
• tūberculum

• tūberōsus

Descendants

• Asturian: todiyu, todiellu
• Catalan: turmell
• English: tuber, truffle
• French: truffe

• Portuguese: túbera, trufa
• Spanish: tobillo
• Translingual: Tuber
• Vulgar Latin: *tufera

Etymology 2

See tubus

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tuber m, 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

Inflection

Third declension.

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)