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, for example a potato or arrowroot.
  2. (horticulture) A thickened rootstock.

Translations

Anagrams

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)
present participle tubant
/ty.bɑ̃/
past participle tubé
/ty.be/
infinitive
simple tuber
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple tubant
/ty.bɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
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 – 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 Only usable with 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

Anagrams

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)
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
Descendants

Etymology 2

See tubus

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

Noun

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