tufa

== English == === Etymology === From Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus or tōphus. Doublet of tuff. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt(j)uːfə/ === Noun === tufa (countable and uncountable, plural tufas) Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring. 1993, George V. Benson, Meeting Highlights, George V. Benson (editor), Proceedings of the Workshop "Ongoing Paleoclimatic Studies in the Northern Great Basin", Geological Survey Circular, US Geological Survey, page 1 B.J. Szabo presented the results of a survey of the tufa mounds that border Pyramid Lake indicating that uranium-series methods can be used to approximate the ages of such tufa deposits. In the Pyramid Lake Basin, tufas less than 50,000 years old contain large quantities of excess thorium, and the error in age estimates made using uranium-series methods is not small enough to confirm results from 14C determinations. (geology) A variety of volcanic rock, tuff. Synonym: tuff 1825, "Oliver Oldschool" (Joseph Dennie), John Elihu Hall (editors), The Port Folio, page 426, This again is followed by a bed of stony tufa of a reddish colour, containing fragments of a spongy lava, amphigone, pyroxene, mica, and common lava; and, like the former, traversed by argillaceous veins. ==== Hypernyms ==== (calcareous deposit): calcite, limestone ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === travertine === Further reading === tufa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === FUTA, UFTA, futa == Albanian == === Pronunciation === === Noun === tufa inflection of tufë: definite nominative singular indefinite nominative/accusative plural == Latin == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === tūfa: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.fa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.fa] tūfā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.faː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.fa] === Noun === tūfa f (genitive tūfae); first declension (Late Latin) a kind of helmet crest or plume a kind of military standard ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Aromanian: tufã Old French: touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe → Middle English: tuft, toft, tofte English: tuft Romanian: tufă → Albanian: tufë → Byzantine Greek: τοῦφᾰ (toûphă) Greek: τούφα (toúfa) === References === “tufa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "tufa", 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) “tufa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Tarifit == === Verb === tufa (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵓⴼⴰ) third-person feminine singular perfective of af == Ternate == === Etymology 1 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [ˈtu.fa] ==== Noun ==== tufa the sky ceiling === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [ˈtu.fa] ==== Verb ==== tufa (transitive) to strip (something) ===== Conjugation ===== === References === Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh