tortuca
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
tortuca (plural tortucas)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
A Latinization of various corresponding Ibero-Romance forms, such as Asturian, Catalan, and Spanish tortuga. The penultimate syllable is long because it carries stress akin to the Ibero-Romance forms.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /torˈtuː.ka/, [t̪ɔrˈt̪uːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /torˈtu.ka/, [t̪orˈt̪uːkä]
Noun edit
tortūca f (genitive tortūcae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) tortoise, turtle
- Synonym: testūdō
- c. 1240, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, chapter 18, in De Proprietatibus Rerum[1], page 1121:
- Tortuca inter teſtudines computatur, eo quod inter teſtes duriſſimas clauditur, inter quas recolligit, quando ab aliquo moleſtatur.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tortūca | tortūcae |
Genitive | tortūcae | tortūcārum |
Dative | tortūcae | tortūcīs |
Accusative | tortūcam | tortūcās |
Ablative | tortūcā | tortūcīs |
Vocative | tortūca | tortūcae |
References edit
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tortuca”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- tortuca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)