tortuca

Interlingua

Tortuca verde
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Noun

tortuca (plural tortucas)

1. turtle, tortoise

Latin

Etymology

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /torˈtuː.ka/, [t̪ɔrˈt̪uːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /torˈtu.ka/, [t̪orˈt̪uːkä]

Noun

tortūca f (genitive tortūcae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) tortoise, turtle

   Synonym: testūdō

   • c. 1240, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, chapter 18, in De Proprietatibus Rerum‎, page 1121:

     Tortuca inter teſtudines computatur, eo quod inter teſtes duriſſimas clauditur, inter quas recolligit, quando ab aliquo moleſtatur.

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Declension

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

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tortuca”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, 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)