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English

Etymology

tuba +? -ist

Noun

tubist (plural tubists)

1. Someone who plays the tuba.

Synonyms

• tubaist

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tju?.b?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?tu.b?/
• Rhymes: -u?b?

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
   • 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230

     One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.

2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
3. A large reed stop in organs.

Synonyms

• grunt-horn

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• euphonium, sousaphone
• tube
• tubular
• corno basso (keyed bass horn)
• bombardon
• ophicleide
• valve-ophicleide
• bucina
• cornu

Further reading

• tuba at OneLook Dictionary Search
• tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

Noun

tuba (uncountable)

1. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.

Further reading

• Derris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Derris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Derris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 3

From Cebuano tuba.

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

1. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.

Etymology 4

Latin tuba

Noun

tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.

Anagrams

• Batu, Taub, abut, batu, buat, buta, tabu

Cebuano

Etymology

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tu?ba

Noun

tuba

1. a reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap
2. a harvest of bananas

Verb

tuba

1. to harvest banana fruits

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tuba.

See also

• bahal
• bahalina

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tuba]

Noun

tuba f

1. tube (a cylindrical container)
2. tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

Declension

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tupa, from Proto-Germanic *stub?. Cognate to Livonian tub?, Finnish tupa, Icelandic stofa, German Stube, Swedish stuga.

Noun

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

1. room, chamber

Declension

Derived terms

• elutuba

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ty.ba/

Noun

tuba m (plural tubas)

1. tuba
2. snorkel

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• buta

Galician

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. tuba

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tub?]
• Hyphenation: tu?ba
• Rhymes: -b?

Noun

tuba (plural tubák)

1. (music) tuba

Declension

Further reading

• ([music] tuba): tuba in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• ([folksy] dove; darling): tuba in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba

Etymology 1

From Latin tuba.

Noun

tuba f (plural tube)

1. (music) tuba
2. top hat

   Synonym: cilindro

3. (anatomy) tube

   Synonym: tuba di Falloppio

Derived terms

• tubarico

Derived terms

• tuba bassa
• tuba contrabbassa
• tuba tenore
• tuba grave
• tuba wagneriana

See also

• elicone
• sousaphone
• bombardone
• euphonium

Etymology 2

Verb

tuba

1. third-person singular present indicative of tubare
2. second-person singular imperative of tubare

Anagrams

• tabù

Further reading

• tuba¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Related to tubus (“a pipe, tube”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension

1. (literally, music) long trumpet over 1 meter in length, especially war-trumpet
2. (transferred sense)
   1. signal for war, war
   2. loud sound
      1. sonorous, elevated epic poetry
      2. lofty style of speaking
3. (figuratively) exciter, author, instigator

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• t?b?rius
• tubicen
• tubilustrium
• tubula

Related terms

• tubus

Descendants

References

• tuba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tuba in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• tuba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuba in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Michiel de Vaan (2008) , Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden: Brill

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) tub?

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tupa. Related to Finnish tupa.

Noun

tuba

1. (a small) house

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tuba (compare Indonesian tuba), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba (compare Fijian duva).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /tub?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /tuba/
• Rhymes: -ub?, -b?, -?

Noun

tuba

1. poison that is made out of root

Polish

Etymology

From Latin tub?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.ba/

Noun

tuba f (diminutive tubka)

1. tube (cylindrical container)
2. tuba (large brass musical instrument)

Declension

Further reading

• tuba in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tuba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tu?ba

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. (music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

Sakizaya

Noun

tuba

1. giant mottled eel

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah (“Derris elliptica”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tu?bá
• IPA^(key): /tu?ba/, [t??ba]

Noun

tubá

1. the croton plant (Croton tiglium), a shrub from the seeds of which croton oil is extracted
2. croton oil