tartaruga
See also: tartarùga
Galician
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian tartaruga.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: tar‧ta‧ru‧ga
Noun
edittartaruga f (plural tartarugas)
- turtle, tortoise
- Synonym: sapoconcho
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
edittartaruga 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
editDescendants
editSee also
editFurther 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
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
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- Hyphenation: tar‧ta‧ru‧ga
Noun
edittartaruga 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
editFurther reading
edit- “tartaruga”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “tartaruga”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “tartaruga” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “tartaruga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “tartaruga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “tartaruga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Portuguese tartaruga.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittartaruga f (plural tartarugas)
- turtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)
- (figuratively, colloquial) (a slow person)
Derived terms
editCategories:
- Galician terms borrowed from Italian
- Galician terms derived from Italian
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/uɡa
- Rhymes:Galician/uɡa/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Galician/uħa
- Rhymes:Galician/uħa/4 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Reptiles
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/uɡa
- Rhymes:Italian/uɡa/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Military
- it:Cooking
- Italian colloquialisms
- Italian clippings
- it:Reptiles
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Italian
- Portuguese terms derived from Italian
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- pt:Turtles
- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Spanish terms derived from Portuguese
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/uɡa
- Rhymes:Spanish/uɡa/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish colloquialisms