tuburcinor

== Latin == === Alternative forms === tuburchinor === Etymology === De Vaan speculatively relates this verb to tūber (“swelling”). According to this theory, tuburcinor originally meant "to be(come) a fat, stuffed person (by eating greedily)", and is derived from a noun *tūbVrko- "fat person" (where V is an unspecified vowel), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). The final element would be -cinor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tʊˈbʊr.kɪ.nɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tuˈbur.t͡ʃi.nor] === Verb === tuburcinor (present infinitive tuburcinārī, perfect active tuburcinātus sum); first conjugation, deponent (transitive) to eat greedily, gobble up, devour ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “tuburcinor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tuburcinor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.