Probablement del llatí vulgar *extūfa, de *extūfāre, escalfar amb vapor.
Vegeu també stew: Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, stew, from Old French estuver, possibly from Vulgar Latin *extūpāre, *extūfāre, to bathe, evaporate : Latin ex-, ex- + Vulgar Latin *tūfus, hot vapor (from Greek tūphos, fever; see typhus).]
I tifus / typhus (tī'fəs) prové en darrer terme de tuf/fum: New Latin tȳphus, from Greek tūphos, stupor arising from a fever, vapor, from tūphein, to smoke.
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