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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 382045, member: 2844&quot;]One of those google translate things, I guess. They also love to mislead you into uttering obscenities in a foreign language.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Don&#039;t trust them.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Spanish word tufo means a bad smell, but it has nothing to do with the Italian word tufo.</p><p>I looked up the Italian Wiki page on tuf<u>o</u>:</p><p><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufo" rel="nofollow">https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufo</a></p><p>And this is what wiki calls tufo nero, which looks like dark grey breccia, and has the same colour as some lava cameos:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mineraly.sk_-_tuf.jpg/260px-Mineraly.sk_-_tuf.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not that wikipedia is always correct of course, but I trust Italians to know their own language.</p><p>In Italian sources I only found the word tuf<u>a</u> as a verb in the old Italian dialect of Romanesco, where it means to regret or lament something.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In your link it says:</p><p>&quot;Tufa, which is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcareous" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcareous" rel="nofollow">calcareous</a>, should not be confused with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuff" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuff" rel="nofollow">tuff</a>, a porous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_rock" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_rock" rel="nofollow">volcanic rock</a> with a similar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology" rel="nofollow">etymology</a> that is sometimes also called &quot;tufa&quot;.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>But I agree, volcanoes are rather careless in what they spew out. Or where they do it, for that matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Transposing a word from one language to another often leads to very confusing definitions, as you noticed with Italian and Spanish. The word tuff means spit (saliva) in the dialect of my region.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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