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Tuber
Webster 1828 Edition
Tuber
TU'BER
,Noun.
Definition 2025
Tuber
Tuber
See also: tuber
Translingual
Proper noun
Tuber n
Hypernyms
- (genus): Fungi - kingdom; Ascomycota - division; Pezizomycotina - subdivision; Pezizomycetes - class; Pezizales - order; Tuberaceae - family
Hyponyms
- For species see
Tuber on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or 
Tuber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
tuber
tuber
See also: Tuber
English
Noun
tuber (plural tubers)
- A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot.
- (horticulture) A thickened "root-stock".
Related terms
Translations
fleshy underground stem
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tybe/
Verb
tuber
Conjugation
Conjugation of tuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | tuber | avoir tubé | |||||
| gerund | en tubant | en ayant tubé | |||||
| present participle | tubant /ty.bɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | tubé /ty.be/ |
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| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | tubai /ty.be/ |
tubas /ty.ba/ |
tuba /ty.ba/ |
tubâmes /ty.bam/ |
tubâtes /ty.bat/ |
tubèrent /ty.bɛʁ/ |
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| future | tuberai /ty.bʁe/ |
tuberas /ty.bʁa/ |
tubera /ty.bʁa/ |
tuberons /ty.bʁɔ̃/ |
tuberez /ty.bʁe/ |
tuberont /ty.bʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/ |
tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/ |
tuberait /ty.bʁɛ/ |
tuberions /ty.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tuberiez /ty.bə.ʁje/ |
tuberaient /ty.bʁɛ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtuː.ber/
Noun
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)
Inflection
Third declension neuter.
| 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
Terms derived from tuber
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Descendants
Etymology 2
See tubus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.ber/
Noun
tuber m, 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
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tuber”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.