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Where does “tufa” come from?

Tufa comes from Italian tufo, from Latin tophus, a porous volcanic rock used in building.

tufa (English): Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a...

Definitions

  1. Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a...

Ancestry of “tufa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantufotuff
2Latintōfus—

Words derived from “tufa”

  • tufaceous
  • hypertufa
Every word from Latin tōfus →