The story
- Latin · derived fromfūrunculus“a petty thief, pilferer; a pointed burning sore, boil”
- English todayfuruncle
Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin fūrunculus (“a petty thief, pilferer; a pointed burning sore, boil”), diminutive of fūr (“a thief”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.