"tuba" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈtʊ.ba] [Classical-Latin], [ˈtuː.ba] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”) with similarities in meaning and form. Etymology templates: {{ety|la|id=trumpet}} Head templates: {{la-noun|tuba<1>}} tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|tuba<1>}} Forms: tubae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], tuba [nominative, singular], tubae [nominative, plural], tubae [genitive, singular], tubārum [genitive, plural], tubae [dative, singular], tubīs [dative, plural], tubam [accusative, singular], tubās [accusative, plural], tubā [ablative, singular], tubīs [ablative, plural], tuba [singular, vocative], tubae [plural, vocative]
  1. (literally, music) long trumpet over 1 meter in length, especially a war-trumpet Tags: declension-1, feminine, literally
    Sense id: en-tuba-la-noun-E6ZAWIva Categories (other): Musical instruments Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  2. (transferred sense)
    signal for war, war
    Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-tuba-la-noun-DmPasyFV Categories (other): War Disambiguation of War: 1 95 2 1 1
  3. (transferred sense)
    loud sound
    sonorous, elevated epic poetry
    Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-tuba-la-noun-YkunFsKu Categories (other): Latin entries with etymon, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension, Sounds Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymon: 40 2 53 2 3 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 36 1 50 9 4 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 21 14 29 18 18 Disambiguation of Sounds: 10 4 36 36 14
  4. (transferred sense)
    loud sound
    lofty style of speaking
    Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-tuba-la-noun-NGTBaMR~ Categories (other): Sounds Disambiguation of Sounds: 10 4 36 36 14
  5. (figurative) exciter, author, instigator Tags: declension-1, feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-tuba-la-noun-X5cNQWQX Categories (other): Sounds Disambiguation of Sounds: 10 4 36 36 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tūbārius, tubicen, tubilustrium, tubula, tubus

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tubilustrium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tubula"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tubus"
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        "borrowed"
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        "borrowed"
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      "word": "tuba"
    },
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "tuba"
    },
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "tuba"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "túba",
      "word": "ту́ба"
    },
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      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "tuba"
    }
  ],
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      "tībia",
      "tibia#Latin"
    ]
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      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ety"
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "form": "tubae",
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        "genitive",
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "tubārum",
      "links": [
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          "tubārum",
          "tubarum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "inflection",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
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          "tubīs",
          "tubis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "inflection",
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      "source": "inflection",
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      ]
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      "form": "tubās",
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          "tubas#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "inflection",
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "form": "tubā",
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          "tubā",
          "tuba#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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        "singular"
      ]
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          "tubīs",
          "tubis#Latin"
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tuba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "inflection",
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          "langcode": "la",
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          "source": "w"
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          "trumpet",
          "trumpet"
        ],
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          "meter",
          "meter"
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          "war",
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        "(literally, music) long trumpet over 1 meter in length, especially a war-trumpet"
      ],
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        "literally"
      ],
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        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
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        "(transferred sense)",
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        "sonorous, elevated epic poetry"
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          "poetry",
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        "sonorous, elevated epic poetry"
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        "loud sound",
        "lofty style of speaking"
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        [
          "sound",
          "sound"
        ],
        [
          "lofty",
          "lofty"
        ],
        [
          "speaking",
          "speaking"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "loud sound",
        "lofty style of speaking"
      ],
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        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
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          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
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          "parents": [],
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          "author",
          "author"
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          "instigator",
          "instigator"
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        "(figurative) exciter, author, instigator"
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        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
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    }
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʊ.ba]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtuː.ba]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tuba"
}
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    "Latin entries with etymon",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Latin first declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 22 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymon",
    "Requests for quotations in Latin",
    "la:Sounds",
    "la:War"
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    {
      "word": "tūbārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "tubicen"
    },
    {
      "word": "tubilustrium"
    },
    {
      "word": "tubula"
    },
    {
      "word": "tubus"
    }
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      "word": "tuba"
    },
    {
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      "word": "tuba"
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      "lang": "Galician",
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      "word": "tuba"
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      "lang": "Italian",
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        "borrowed"
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      "word": "tuba"
    },
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        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
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      ],
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    }
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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      "form": "tubārum",
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          "tubārum",
          "tubarum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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        "genitive",
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        "singular"
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        [
          "tubīs",
          "tubis#Latin"
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        "singular"
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        [
          "tubā",
          "tuba#Latin"
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
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        [
          "tubīs",
          "tubis#Latin"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
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      ]
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        "(literally, music) long trumpet over 1 meter in length, especially a war-trumpet"
      ],
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        "feminine",
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        "sonorous, elevated epic poetry"
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        "lofty style of speaking"
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        "(transferred sense)",
        "loud sound",
        "lofty style of speaking"
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        "feminine"
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        "exciter, author, instigator"
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        "(figurative) exciter, author, instigator"
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      "ipa": "[ˈtʊ.ba]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtuː.ba]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tuba"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.