Etymology Explorer › French

Where does “tuffe” come from?

tuffe (French) comes from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus.

Ancestry of “tuffe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantufotuff
2Latintōfus—

Words derived from “tuffe”

  • tuff
  • tuffaceous
  • metatuff
Every word from Latin tōfus →