英语词汇tuba的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	tuba
词源	tuba. A straight war trumpet was called a tuba by the ancient Romans, after the Latin word for “arouser or exciter.” Over the centuries this word for a war trumpet became attached to an entirely different musical instrument that hadn’t even been in- vented in Roman times.
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