tuba

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtjuː.bə/    美 /ˈtu.bə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
    — One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
  2. A tube or tubular organ.
    — Compared with skulls of darwini, skulls of andium are smaller with shorter tooth rows (fig. 13), have less globular bullae that taper more gradually to the tubae, and a shorter, proportionately narrower rostrum with nasals usually relatively blunt behind and seldom projecting posteriorly far behind the premaxillae (pl. 11).
  3. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis. uncountable
  4. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap. Philippines,uncountable
  5. A large reed stop in organs.
  6. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
    — From the eleventh century onwards, the trumpets, which had till then been modelled on the Roman tubae with their straightforward and somewhat rough sound, began to grow longer and thinner as their bells widened.

词形变化

tubas plural tubas plural tubae plural

词汇关系

近义词
grunt-horn
衍生词
cumulonimbus tuba sax tuba saxtuba tubaist tubalike tubax tubist Wagner tuba war tuba
相关词
euphonium sousaphone tube tubular corno basso bombardon ophicleide valve-ophicleide bucina cornu

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Latin tuba.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Malay tubabor.
English tuba
Borrowed from Malay tuba.
词源 4
Borrowed from Tagalog tuba.
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