tofus

See also: Tofus

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tofus (plural tofi)

1. Alternative form of tophus.

Etymology 2

Noun

tofus

1. 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

1. tuff (kind of rock)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tōfus	tōfī
genitive	tōfī	tōfōrum
dative	tōfō	tōfīs
accusative	tōfum	tōfōs
ablative	tōfō	tōfīs
vocative	tōfe	tōfī

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’s 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

1. plural of tofu

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tophus.

Noun

tofus n (plural tofusuri)

1. tophus

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tofus	tofusul		tofusuri	tofusurile
genitive-dative	tofus	tofusului		tofusuri	tofusurilor
vocative	tofusule			tofusurilor

Swedish

Noun

tofus

1. indefinite genitive singular of tofu