tuberculum
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin tuberculum.
Noun[edit]
tuberculum (plural tubercula)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tuber (“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence”) + -culum (diminutive suffix).
Noun[edit]
tūberculum n (genitive tūberculī); second declension
- Diminutive of tuber
- a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tūberculum | tūbercula |
| Genitive | tūberculī | tūberculōrum |
| Dative | tūberculō | tūberculīs |
| Accusative | tūberculum | tūbercula |
| Ablative | tūberculō | tūberculīs |
| Vocative | tūberculum | tūbercula |
References[edit]
- “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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