The story
- Latin · derived fromtūber“truffle”
- Late Latin · derived fromtufera
- Old Occitan · derived fromtrufa
- French · borrowed fromtrufle
- English todaytruffle
Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”).
Words from the same roots
Latintūber all →
tuber
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.