英语词汇truffle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	truffle
词源	truffle [L16th] This word for a type of fungus is probably via Dutch from obsolete French truffle, perhaps based on Latin tubera, the plural of tuber ‘hump, swelling’, also the source of tuber [L16th]. Use of the word in confectionery dates from the 1900s. The related verb tumere ‘to swell’ is the source of tumult [LME].
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