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"tube" in seven languages

Meaningtube

Spanish

tubo

/ˈtubo/

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French

tube

/tyb/

masc.learned

Informally also a hit song: le tube de l'été.

Italian

tubo

/ˈtubo/

masc.learned

A small squeezable tube is a tubetto.

Portuguese

tubo

/ˈtubu/

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Romanian

tub

/tub/

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Catalan

tub

/tup/

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English

tube

/tub/

from Latin/French · French tube, from Latin TUBUS

English → ItaliantubetuboCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

TUBUM‘pipe, tube’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A learned word everywhere; French says it with its rounded [y]. London's Underground is the Tube, while a French tube can be the summer's hit song.

English relatives: tuba, tubular

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In a sentence

  • esEl agua pasa por un tubo de plástico.
  • frL'eau passe par un tube en plastique.
  • itL'acqua passa per un tubo di plastica.
  • ptA água passa por um tubo de plástico.
  • roApa trece printr-un tub de plastic.
  • caL'aigua passa per un tub de plàstic.
  • enThe water runs through a plastic tube.

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