German

Noun

Tubus n ‎(genitive Tubus, plural Tuben or Tubusse)

1. tube (hollow cylinder) especially such a part of an optical instrument

Latin

Noun

tubus m ‎(genitive tubī); second declension

1. tube, pipe
2. trumpet used at sacrifices

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (tube, pipe): sōlēn

Derived terms

• tubulus

Related terms

• tubulātiō
• tubulātus

Descendants

See also

• tuba

References

• tubus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tubus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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.