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Latin
Etymology
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
Verb
tuburcinor (present infinitive tuburcinārī, perfect active tuburcinātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (transitive) to eat greedily, gobble up, devour
Conjugation
References
- ^ 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