Noun: truffle
| Singular | truffle |
| Plural | truffles |
Sample Sentences
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In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 137:]
Nouns inflected like truffle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”). See: French Nouns '
trufle', Swedish Nouns '
tryffel', German Nouns '
Trüffel', Latin Nouns '
tūber'.