tartaruga
See also: tartarùga
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian tartaruga.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tar‧ta‧ru‧ga
Noun edit
tartaruga f (plural tartarugas)
- turtle, tortoise
- Synonym: sapoconcho
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin tartarucha, feminine form of tartaruchus, a mythological spirit of Greek origin, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “inhabitant of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Compare French tortue, Spanish tortuga.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tartaruga f (plural tartarughe)
- turtle, tortoise
- tortoiseshell (carapace of a tortoise)
- (military) testudo (Roman military formation)
- (cooking) type of bread roll having a pattern of criss-cross incisions
- Synonym: pane tartaruga
- (colloquial) Clipping of addominali a tartaruga (“six pack”).
Derived terms edit
- tartaruga azzannatrice (“snapping turtle”)
- tartaruga embricata (“hawksbill turtle”)
- tartaruga marina (“sea turtle”)
- tartaruga verde (“green turtle”)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- tartaruga in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- tartaruga in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- tartaruga in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- tartaruga in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- tartarùga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- tartaruga in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- tartaruga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian tartaruga, from Late Latin tartarucha, feminine of tartaruchus, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “inhabitant of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros, “Tartarus”).
Sense 2 comes from the shape of a cat's eye that resembles a turtle shell.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tar‧ta‧ru‧ga
Noun edit
tartaruga f (plural tartarugas)
- turtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)
- Synonyms: (Brazil) quelônio, (Portugal) quelónio, testudíneo
- Hyponyms: cágado, jabuti, tartaruga marinha
- (colloquial) cat's eye (traffic retroreflective device)
- Synonyms: tachão, olho de gato
- (figuratively, colloquial) (a slow person)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tartaruga” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “tartaruga” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “tartaruga” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “tartaruga” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “tartaruga” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “tartaruga” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese tartaruga.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tartaruga f (plural tartarugas)
- turtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)
- (figuratively, colloquial) (a slow person)