different between tubed vs tuber

English

Adjective

tubed (not comparable)

1. Possessing a tube or tubes.

Verb

tubed

1. simple past tense and past participle of tube

Anagrams

• debut, début

English

Etymology

From Latin t?ber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tyo?o'b?(r), IPA^(key): /tju?b?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?b?(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.
3. (anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.

Related terms

• tubercle
• tubercular

Translations

Anagrams

• Ubert, brute, buret, rebut

French

Etymology

From tube +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.be/

Verb

tuber

1. to make into a tube shape
2. to put into a tube

Conjugation

Further reading

• “tuber” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• brute, buter, rebut

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *t??os, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]

Noun

t?ber n (genitive t?beris); 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).

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See tubus

Alternative forms

• tubur

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t??b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]

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.

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