English
tuberculum
Tuberculum comes from Latin tūberculum ‘a small swelling, bump, or protuberance’, and goes back to tūber.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūber‘hump, bump, swelling, protuberance’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūberculum‘a small swelling, bump, or protuberance’
- Englishtodaytuberculum
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūber‘hump, bump, swelling, protuberance’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūberculum‘a small swelling, bump, or protuberance’
- Englishtodaytuberculum
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- ‘to swell’
butter, tomb, tumor, soma, tumour, trifle, tyrosine, tumultuous, madrasa, tumult, turgid, 43 more
through Proto-Italic *tūβos
through Latin tūber ‘hump, bump, swelling, protuberance’
Today it means
noun tubercle
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tūber / tuberculum