tuberculum

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tuberculum.

Noun

tuberculum (plural tubercula)

  1. tubercle

Latin

Etymology

From tuber (“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

tūberculum n (genitive tūberculī); second declension

  1. diminutive of tuber
  2. a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tūberculum tūbercula
Genitive tūberculī tūberculōrum
Dative tūberculō tūberculīs
Accusative tūberculum tūbercula
Ablative tūberculō tūberculīs
Vocative tūberculum tūbercula

References

  • “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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