Noun: tuba
| Singular | tuba |
| Plural | tubas; tubae |
Sample Sentences
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One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa. [1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230:]
Nouns inflected like tuba
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed in the 19th century from French tuba (“tuba”), German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), or Italian tuba (“tuba”), from Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”). The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there. See: French Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "tuba"
Irish Nouns
tiúba.