# tuber
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞oʹbə(r), IPA: /tjuːbə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: to͞oʹbə(r), IPA: /tubɚ/
* Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

#### Noun

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.

##### Derived terms

* Dublin trout
* silver trout
* tuber cinereum
* tuber fleeceflower
* Yellowstone cutthroat trout

##### Related terms

* tubercle
* tubercular

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

tube +‎ -er

#### Noun

tuber (plural tubers)
* One who tubes.

### Anagrams

* Ubert, brute, buret, rebut

## French
### Etymology

From tube +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ty.be/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

tuber
* to make into a tube shape
* to put into a tube

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “tuber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* brute, buter, rebut

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Probably from Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”) (though de Vaan is skeptical of the hypothetical morphology).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtuː.ber/, [ˈt̪uːbɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtu.ber/, [ˈt̪uːber]

#### 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)

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

##### Derived terms

* extūberō
* prōtūberō
* tūberātus
* tūberculum
* tūberōsus

##### Descendants

* → English: tuber
* → Portuguese: túbera
* → Spanish: tubera
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tūbellum (diminutive)
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: todiyu, todiellu, todíu
** Old Spanish: touiello
*** Spanish: tobillo
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tufera
** Old Catalan: tòfera
*** Catalan: tòfona
** Old Occitan: trufa
*** Occitan: trufa
*** → Catalan: trufa
*** → Old French: trufe
**** French: truffe
***** → Greek: τρούφα (troúfa)
***** → Japanese: トリュフ
***** → Romanian: trufă
**** ⇒ Old French: trufle (variant)
***** → Alemannic German: trüffulu, trifflu (Italian Walser)
***** → Danish: trøffel
***** → Dutch: truffel
***** → English: truffle
***** → Faroese: trøfla
***** → German: Trüffel (see there for further descendants)
***** → Norwegian: trøffel
***** → Polish: trufla
***** → Swedish: tryffel
****** → Finnish: tryffeli
*** → Portuguese: trufa
*** → Spanish: trufa
** ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (Vulgar equivalent to Classical Latin terrae tūber (“tuber of the earth”))
*** Italian: tartufo (see there for further descendants)
**** ⇒ Italian: tartufolo (diminutive) (see there for further descendants)
*** Rhaeto-Romance:
**** Romansch: tartuffel, hardefel, truffel, tiffel, ardöffel

### Etymology 2

See tubus.

#### Alternative forms

* tubur

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtu.ber/, [ˈt̪ʊbɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtu.ber/, [ˈt̪uːber]

#### Noun

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

Third-declension noun.

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tūber, -eris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 632

### Further reading

* “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.

## Swedish
### Noun

tuber
* indefinite plural of tub