English
tuber
Tuber comes from Latin tūber ‘bump, hump, swelling’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūber‘bump, hump, swelling’
- Englishtodaytuber
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūber‘bump, hump, swelling’
- Englishtodaytuber
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- ‘to swell’
butter, tomb, tumor, soma, tumour, trifle, tumultuous, tyrosine, tumult, madrasa, turgid, 43 more
through Proto-Italic *tūβos
through Latin tūber ‘bump, hump, swelling’
Today it means
noun A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tūber / tuber