tortuca

tortuca (plural tortucas)

1. turtle, tortoise

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.

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

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• 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)