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- Latin · derived fromprōtubērantia“bulge; protuberance”
- French · derived fromprotubérance
- English todayprotuberance
From French protubérance, from Latin prōtubērantia (“bulge; protuberance”), from prō + tūber (“swelling; protuberance”) + -antia (“-ance”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.