The story
- Latin · derived fromthūs
- New Latin · borrowed fromthūrifer“incense-bearing”
- English todaythurifer
Originated 1850–55 from New Latin thūrifer (“incense-bearing”), tūrifer, from Latin thūs, tūs (“incense”) + -fer (“bearing”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.