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tofus

volcanic rock, tufa

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Where it lives

Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. tOfus — de Vaan

tOfus 'volcanic rock, tufa' [m. o\ (Verg.) Pit. *tauf-o-? It. cognates: maybe O. tavffud [abl.sg.] if 'tufa\ Probably a loanword from Sabellic, because of-fBibL: WH II: 687, EM 693, Untermann 2000: 736. toles, -ium * goitre' [f pL i] (Fest.) Derivatives: tdnsillae [fpl.] 'tonsils' (Cic.+). Pit. *ton-sli- 'goitre, tonsil'. PIE *ton-sl-i-, IE cognates: see s.v. teneo. Generally, idles is explained as the pi. … — [de Vaan, s.v. tOfus, p. 635]

2. tōfus — Lewis & Short

tōfus (tōphus), i, m.,

I tufa or tuff; Ital. tufo, Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 29; 36, 22, 48, § 166; Vitr. 2, 7; Front. Aquaed. 122; Verg. G. 2, 214; Ov. M. 3, 160; 8, 562; Stat. S. 4, 3, 52.

In the wild

tofus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.4.p2
tofus Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.6.1
tofi Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.26
tofum Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.20
tofum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.11.7
tofo Ovid, Epistulae 15.141

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. tOfus (scan pp. 635-636; entry #1814). Root candidates: *tonsli-, *tens-, *ten-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tofus (scan p. 717; entry #11918).

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