truffe

Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Alternative forms

• tartoufle
• tartouffe (Moulins Dialect)

Noun

truffe f

1. potato

French

Etymology

From Old Occitan trufa, ultimately from Latin tuber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁyf/

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Noun

truffe f (plural truffes)

2. (cooking) truffle (edible fungi)
4. (cooking) chocolate truffle

   Synonyms: truffe au chocolat, truffe en chocolat

6. (zoology) nose of a dog

Descendants

• → Greek: τρούφα (troúfa)
• → Japanese: トリュフ
• → Romanian: trufă

Verb

truffe

1. inflection of truffer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Gallery

• 
  Une truffe. (sense 1)
• 
  Truffes en chocolat. (sense 2)
• 
  La truffe d'un chien. (sense 3)

Further reading

• “truffe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

truffe f

1. plural of truffa