tuberculum
Latin
noun
Definitions
- a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle
Etymology
Affix from Latin tuber (protuberance, hump, excrescence, truffle, swelling, bump).
Origin
Latin
tuber
Gloss
protuberance, hump, excrescence, truffle, swelling, bump
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antituberculous English
- epituberculous English
- intertubercle English
- nontuberculous English
- paratuberculous English
- pseudotuberculous English
- tubercle English
- tubercled English
- tuberculous English
- tuberculum English
- *tufera Latin
- tuber Latin
- tartufolo Italian
- tuberculoso Spanish, Castilian
- tubérculo Spanish, Castilian
- *tewh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- tuberkel Danish
- tuberkulose Danish
- truffe Old French
- *tūβos Proto-Italic
- trufa Old Occitan