truffle
pronunciation
How to pronounce truffle in British English:
UK [ˈtrʌfl]
How to pronounce truffle in American English:
US [ˈtrʌfəl]
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- Noun:
- any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
- edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
- creamy chocolate candy
Word Origin
- truffle
- truffle: [16] English acquired truffle, probably via Dutch truffel, from early modern French truffle, a derivative of Old French truffe (which survives as the modern French term for the fungus). This in turn came via Provençal trufa from a Vulgar Latin *tūfera, an alteration of the plural of Latin tūber ‘swelling, lump, tuber, truffle’ (from which English gets tuber [17] and tuberculosis [19]). The term was first used for a chocolate sweet with the external appearance of a truffle in the 1920s.=> tuber, tuberculosis
- truffle (n.)
- type of edible underground fungus, 1590s, from Middle French trufle (14c.), probably from Old Provençal trufa, metathesized from Late Latin tufera (plural), cognate of Latin tuber "edible root." Another theory notes Italian tartuffo (Milanese tartuffel) "potato," supposedly from terræ tuber. Extended 1926 to powdered, round chocolates that look like truffles.
Example
- 1. All will be topped with generous shavings of white truffle .
- 2. The white truffle is the most expensive of the family .
- 3. And two of the things that came from the earth are mentioned in this citation we have for truffle .
- 4. How do you prepare a meal worthy of a $ 142653 truffle ?
- 5. He will be more delighted than anyone when sandringham 's experimental truffle farm finally produces its first truffle .