The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτύφος“steam”
- Latin · derived fromextufare
- Venetan · derived fromstufado
- Greek · borrowed fromστιφάδο
- English todaystifado
From Greek στιφάδο (stifádo), from Venetan stufado, from Latin extufare, from Ancient Greek τύφος (túphos, “steam”). Compare Italian stufato, French estouffade. Doublet of estouffade.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.