tartufo

From Italian tartufo. Doublet of tartuffe.

tartufo (usually uncountable, plural tartufos or tartufi)

1. An Italian dessert consisting of a ball of ice cream coated in chocolate, with a cherry inside.
   • 2015 August, Anita Hughes, chapter 16, in Rome in Love, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 143:

     He watched a boy and a girl jump rope and a waiter carry a silver tray of tartufo.

• tartufo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From the character Tartuffe (in Esperanto: Tartufo) in the theatrical comedy Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur by Molière.

• IPA^(key): /tarˈtufo/
• Rhymes: -ufo
• Hyphenation: tar‧tu‧fo

tartufo (accusative singular tartufon, plural tartufoj, accusative plural tartufojn)

1. tartuffe, hypocrite

   Synonym: hipokritulo

• IPA^(key): /tarˈtu.fo/
• Rhymes: -ufo
• Hyphenation: tar‧tù‧fo

From Latin terrae tuber (“tuber of the earth”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

tartufo m (plural tartufi)

2. (botany) truffle

• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: та̀ртуф

  Latin script: tàrtuf

• → Slovene: tartuf
• ⇒ Italian: tartufolo (diminutive)
  • → Alemannic German: artuffula
  • → Bavarian: gartufela, kartufula
  • → German: Tartuffel, Tartüffel, Kartoffel
    • → Albanian: kërtollë
    • → Bulgarian: картоф (kartof)
    • → Danish: kartoffel
      • → Icelandic: kartafla
    • → English: kartoffel
    • → Estonian: kartul
    • → Latvian: kartupelis
    • → Polish: kartofel
    • → Romanian: cartof
    • → Russian: карто́фель (kartófelʹ) (see there for further descendants)
      • ⇒ Russian: карто́шка (kartóška) (diminutive) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Ukrainian: картопля (kartoplja)
    • → Yiddish: קאַרטאָפֿל (kartofl)
  • → German Low German: Kantüffel, Kartuffel, Kartüffel, Kortüffel
    • → Estonian: kartul
    • → Latvian: kartupelis
  • → Hunsrik: Kartoffel

Borrowed from French tartuffe, from the name of the protagonist Tartuffe in the play of the same name by Molière, from Italian tartufo.

tartufo m (plural tartufi)

1. (idiomatic) hypocrite; tartuffe

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tartufo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tartufare

• tartufo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• tartufo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• tartùfo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• tartufo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

• fatturo, fatturò

Borrowed from French tartuffe, from the protagonist Tartuffe in the play of the same name by Molière.

• IPA^(key): /taɾˈtufo/ [t̪aɾˈt̪u.fo]
• Rhymes: -ufo
• Syllabification: tar‧tu‧fo

tartufo (feminine tartufa, masculine plural tartufos, feminine plural tartufas)

1. hypocritical

• “tartufo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024