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English[edit]

Sweet potatoes with visible tubers
Etymology[edit]
From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Translations[edit]
fleshy underground stem
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anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
tuber
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of tuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | tuber | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | tubant /ty.bɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | tubé /ty.be/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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/ |
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 | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | tube /tyb/ |
— | tubons /ty.bɔ̃/ |
tubez /ty.be/ |
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compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading[edit]
- “tuber” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | tūber | tūbera |
Genitive | tūberis | tūberum |
Dative | tūberī | tūberibus |
Accusative | tūber | tūbera |
Ablative | tūbere | tūberibus |
Vocative | tūber | tūbera |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: tuber
- → Catalan: tòfona
- → Portuguese: túbera
- → Spanish: tubera
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tūbellum (diminutive)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tufera
Etymology 2[edit]
See tubus
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | tuber | tuberēs |
Genitive | tuberis | tuberum |
Dative | tuberī | tuberibus |
Accusative | tuberem | tuberēs |
Ablative | tubere | tuberibus |
Vocative | tuber | tuberēs |
References[edit]
- 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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