Etymology

tartuffe

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French tartuffe ← Italian tartufo
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromtartufo“truffle”
  2. French · borrowed fromtartuffe
  3. English todaytartuffe

From French tartuffe, from the protagonist Tartuffe (from Italian tartufo (“truffle”)) in the play of the same name by Molière. Doublet of tartufo.

Words from the same roots

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tartufo

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