tubus

See also: Tubus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tubus. Doublet of tube.

Noun

tubus (plural tubi)

1. (biology) A tube.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtubus]

Noun

tubus m inan

1. tube

Declension

Declension of tubus (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	tubus	tubusy
genitive	tubusu	tubusů
dative	tubusu	tubusům
accusative	tubus	tubusy
vocative	tubuse	tubusy
locative	tubusu	tubusech
instrumental	tubusem	tubusy

Further reading

• “tubus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tubus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tubus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latin

Etymology

From tuba.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊ.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪uː.bus]

Noun

tubus m (genitive tubī); second declension

1. tube, pipe

   Synonym: sōlēn

2. trumpet used at sacrifices

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tubus	tubī
genitive	tubī	tubōrum
dative	tubō	tubīs
accusative	tubum	tubōs
ablative	tubō	tubīs
vocative	tube	tubī

Derived terms

• tubulus

Related terms

• tubulātiō
• tubulātus

Descendants

• Catalan: tub
• English: tube
• Middle French: tube
  • French: tube
    • → Romanian: tub
    • → Turkish: tüp
  • → English: tube
• Galician: tubo
• Italian: tubo
• Portuguese: tubo
• Spanish: tubo
  • → Cebuano: tubo

See also

• tuba

References

• “tubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tubus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tubus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.