Etymograph

English

truff

Truff comes from French truffe ‘truffle’, and goes back to Latin tuber.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtuber
  2. Old Occitanc. 950–1500trufa
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presenttruffe‘truffle’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1749truff

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtuber
  2. Old Occitanc. 950–1500trufa
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presenttruffe‘truffle’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1749truff

Earliest quotation: 1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour: “The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs,…”

Linked words

through Latin tuber

tuberculosis, tuber, 8 more

Today it means

noun A truffle.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin tuber / truff

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