different between tubercular vs tuber

English

Etymology

Latin tuberculum (“diminutive of tuber (“lump”)”) +? -ar

Pronunciation

Adjective

tubercular (comparative more tubercular, superlative most tubercular)

1. Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis.
   • 1924, “Critical Inspection of a Myth,” Time, 24 November, 1924,^[1]

     As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation.

   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, Part One, Chapter 1,^[2]

     He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 5,^[3]

     There had been, too, all the long weeks of Rosie’s tubercular dying to go through.

   • 2012, Will Self, “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” London Review of Books website,^[4]

     The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.

2. Relating to or reminiscent of the wheezing sounds associated with the breathing of tuberculosis patients.
   • 1994, John DeChancie and David Bischoff, Masters of Spacetime, Crossroad Press, 2015, Chapter 9,^[5]

     The engine heaved. […] The thing sounded like a tubercular tugboat engine without a muffler.

   • 2007, Declan Hughes, The Colour of Blood, Chapter 1,^[6]

     Crows on the roof beat their wings and made their low tubercular moan.

   • 2016, Brad Wheeler, “Old Dylan and Stones deliver at new Desert Trip music festival,” The Globe and Mail, 8 October, 2016,^[7]

     His voice? A raspy, nasal and welcoming instrument, with a tubercular kind of charisma.

3. Tuberculate.
   • 1930, Emily Pelloe, West Australian Orchids, p. 13,^[8]

     “ORANGE ORCHID” “SPOTTED ORCHID” […] Dorsal appendage of the hood of column smooth, tubercular and notched at the end.

Derived terms

Translations

Interlingua

Adjective

tubercular (not comparable)

1. tubercular, tuberculose

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