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- Latin · derived fromtubus“tube, pipe”
- Middle French · derived fromtube
- English todaytube
From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”), related to tuba (“long trumpet; war-trumpet”), of obscure ultimate origin, but possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there. Doublet of tubus.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.