tuberculum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin tuberculum.
Noun
[edit]tuberculum (plural tubercula)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tuber (“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence”) + -culum (diminutive suffix).
Noun
[edit]tūberculum n (genitive tūberculī); second declension
- diminutive of tuber
- a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tūberculum | tūbercula |
| genitive | tūberculī | tūberculōrum |
| dative | tūberculō | tūberculīs |
| accusative | tūberculum | tūbercula |
| ablative | tūberculō | tūberculīs |
| vocative | tūberculum | tūbercula |
References
[edit]- “tuberculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tuberculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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