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tuburcinor

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Etymology

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De Vaan[1] speculatively identifies this verb with tūber (swelling). According to this theory, tuburcinor originally meant "to be(come) a fat, stuffed person (by eating greedily)", and is derived from a noun *tūbVrko- (fat person) (where V is an unspecified vowel), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (to swell).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tuburcinor (present infinitive tuburcinārī, perfect active tuburcinātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. (transitive) to eat greedily, gobble up, devour

Conjugation

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References

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  • tuburcinor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tuburcinor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tūber”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 632