tartufo

See also: tartufò

English

Tartufo with melted chocolate placed inside, visible upon separation of the traditional ball shape

Etymology

From Italian tartufo. Doublet of tartuffe.

Noun

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.

Further reading

• tartufo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. tartuffe, hypocrite

   Synonym: hipokritulo

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tartufo m (plural tartufi)

2. (botany) truffle

Related terms

• affettatartufi
• tartufaia
• tartufaio
• tartufare
• tartufato
• tartufesco
• tartuficoltore
• tartuficoltura
• tartuficultore
• tartuficultura
• tartufigeno
• tartufo al cioccolato
• tartufo bianco
• tartufo di mare
• tartufo nero

Descendants

• → 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
    • → Danish: kartoffel
      • → Icelandic: kartafla
    • → English: kartoffel
    • → Estonian: kartul
    • → Latvian: kartupelis
    • → Polish: kartofel
    • → Romanian: cartof, cartoafă, картоф (cartof) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
      • → Bulgarian: картоф (kartof)
    • → 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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tartufo m (plural tartufi)

1. (idiomatic) hypocrite; tartuffe

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tartufo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tartufare

Further reading

• 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

Anagrams

• fatturo, fatturò

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. hypocritical

Further reading

• “tartufo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025