Etymograph

English

trullo

Trullo comes from Italian trullo ‘a type of conical stone-roofed house in Apulia’, from Latin trulla ‘small ladle or scoop’, and ultimately from trua.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrua‘ladle’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrulla‘small ladle or scoop’
  3. Byzantine Greekc. 600–1453τροῦλλος
  4. Italianc. 1300–presenttrullo‘a type of conical stone-roofed house in Apulia’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrua‘ladle’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrulla‘small ladle or scoop’
  3. Byzantine Greekc. 600–1453τροῦλλος
  4. Italianc. 1300–presenttrullo‘a type of conical stone-roofed house in Apulia’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- ‘to turn’

torture, queer, torch, torque, tart, torment, extortion, tort, thwart, torsion, 24 more

through Latin trulla ‘small ladle or scoop’

trowel

Today it means

noun A type of conical stone-roofed house in Apulia (especially in Alberobello).

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

Etymograph / Latin trua / trullo

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