tuberculum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tūberculum. === Noun === tuberculum (plural tubercula) tubercle == Latin == === Etymology === From tūber (“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix). === Noun === tūberculum n (genitive tūberculī); second declension diminutive of tūber a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “tuberculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tuberculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.