1. tuba — de Vaan
tuba 'trumpet' [f. a] (P1.+) Derivatives: tubus 'pipe, tube, trumpet' (Varro+), tubulus 'small pipe' (Varro+); — [de Vaan, s.v. tuba, p. 646]
The corpus record — Latin
tuba
tuba
trumpet
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Where it lives
- Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
- Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
- Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
- de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
- De Spectaculis 3 · 4.71/10k
- Carmina 10 · 4.46/10k
- Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k
- De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
- de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k
- In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Densest 12 of 83 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. tŭba — Lewis & Short
tŭba, ae, f.kindr. with tubus, a tube,
I a trumpet, esp. a war-trumpet (straight, while the cornu was curved, Acron ad Hor. C. 1, 1, 23).
I Lit.:
ille arma misit, cornua, tubas, falces,Cic. Sull. 5, 17:
tubae et signa militaria,id. Cat. 2, 6, 13: at tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 842 P. (Ann. v. 452 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. A. 9, 503:
tubae utrimque canunt,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73:
signum tubā dare,Caes. B. G. 2, 20; so id. ib. 7, 81; id. B. C. 3, 46; 3, 90; Liv. 29, 27, 5 al.; cf. also Caes. B. G. 7, 47; Hirt. B. G. 8, 20:
non tuba directi, non aeris cornua fiexi,Ov. M. 1, 98; Tac. A. 1, 68; Luc. 4, 750; 6, 130; 7, 477; Sil. 5, 12 al.; v. Veg. Mil. 3, 5.—Apart from military purposes, it was used on various occasions, as at religious festivals, games, funerals, etc., Varr. L. L. 6, § 14 Müll.; Ov. F. 1, 716; Verg. A. 5, 113; Juv. 10, 214; Stat. S. 3, 1, 139 al.; cf. tubus, II. A.; Verg. A. 11, 192; Ov. H. 12, 140; Hor. S. 1, 6, 44; Pers. 3, 103; cf. Atei. Capito ap. Gell. 20, 2, 3.—
B Transf.
1 A signal for war, war, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 64; id. Laud. Stil. 1, 246; Mart. Spect. 28, 2.—
2 A loud sound: nimborum, i. e. the roar of thunder, Claud. gigant. 60.—
b Sonorous, elevated epic poetry, Mart. 8, 3, 22; 8, 56, 4; 10, 64, 4; 11, 3, 8; Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 197.—
c A lofty style of speaking, Prud. contr. Symm. 2, 68; Sid. Ep. 4, 3 fin. —
II Trop.:
tuba belli civilis,i. e. exciter, author, instigator, Cic. Fam. 6, 12, 3:
rixae,Juv. 15, 52.
3. tuba — Walde–Hofmann
tuba, -ae f. „Tuba, gerade tieftónende Trompete“ (seit Enn. und Plaut); jünger „Röhre im Druckwerk* (Vitr,), tubus, -i m. , Wasserleitungsróhre, Röhre*, Pl. „Röhrenheizung* (seit Sen.), tubicen, -cinis m. „Trompeter“ (seit Varro ling. 5, 117, tubieino, -üre seit Itala); tubula, -ae f. „kleine Trompete“ (seit Sen., tubulus, - m. , Wasserröhre“ seit Vitr, fubulütus, -a, -wm „mit Röhren versehen“ seit Plin. epist, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tuba, p. 1620]
4. Tyba — Lewis & Short
Tyba, ae, f.,
I a village on the Euphrates, now Taibe, Cic. Fam. 15, 1, 2
In the wild
- tuba Statius, Achilleis 1.875
- tuba Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.81
- tuba Statius, Thebais 2.261
- tubarumque Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.37.10
- tuba Propertius, Elegiae 2.13b.4
- tuba Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.10.14
6 of 251 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. tuba (scan p. 646; entry #1852).
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tuba (scan pp. 349-350; entry #5492).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tuba (scan pp. 1620-1621; entry #3104). Root candidates: *tübh-.
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