Tuba

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mid 19th century: via Italian from Latin, ‘trumpet’.


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From Latin tuba(“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba(“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba(literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source.

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

From Cebuano tuba

Latin tuba


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tuba (n.)

1852 in reference to a modern, large, low-pitched brass musical instrument, from French tuba, from Latin tuba (plural tubae) "straight bronze war trumpet" (as opposed to the crooked bucina), related to tubus (see tube (n.)).