tofus

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== tofus (plural tofi) Alternative form of tophus. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== tofus plural of tofu === Anagrams === Foust == Latin == === Etymology === Probably borrowed from Oscan, and possibly derived from Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). See τύφη (plant for stuffing bolsters). === Noun === tōfus m (genitive tōfī); second declension tuff (kind of rock) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== tōfāceus tōfīnus tōfōsus ==== Descendants ==== Aragonese: tobo (“soft, hollow”), ⇒ toba (“cave”) Catalan: tou (“soft”) Galician: tobo, touvo (“burrow”) ⇒ Gascon: toat, tout (“hollow”) Neapolitan: tufo → Italian: tufo → English: tufa → French: tuf → English: tuff → German: Tuff → Polish: tuf → Spanish: tufo → Romansch: tuf ⇒? Portuguese: Tua Spanish: toba → Andalusian Arabic: طُوب (ṭūb, “cotton thistle”) === References === “tofus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tofus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "tofus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Portuguese == === Noun === tofus plural of tofu == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French tophus. === Noun === tofus n (plural tofusuri) tophus ==== Declension ==== == Swedish == === Noun === tofus indefinite genitive singular of tofu