English

Noun

tuberculum ‎(plural tubercula)

1. tubercle

Latin

Etymology

From tuber ‎(“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence”) +‎ -culum ‎(diminutive suffix).

Noun

tuberculum n ‎(genitive tuberculi); second declension

1. diminutive of tuber
2. a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle

References

• tuberculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tuberculum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.