turtură

Forms

turtură f (plural turture)^[1] Băcescu's book on birds also records the variant tultură.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *turtura, a feminine form of Latin turtur (“turtle dove”), according to MDA2 and the DLR.^[3][2] Wiktionary derives the word either from turturea or, more likely, from Latin.^[1] Tiktin takes the opposite view: the word is a back-formation from turturea, as Italian tortora and the like are in the other Romance languages.^[4] Lacea, followed by Ciorănescu, held it to be the older form, rare and barely preserved, of which turturea is a diminutive.^[5]

The word survives south of the Danube: Aromanian turturã and Megleno-Romanian túrtură.^[5][6][7] Pascu derives the Aromanian word from the same Latin form.^[8] The Latin word is an onomatopoeic reduplication imitating the bird's call.^[9][10] Its other Romance descendants include Spanish tórtola and Old French tourtre.^[1][10]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is Theodor Papahagi's Contribuții lexicale of 1939.^[3] The DLR quotes it from Transylvanian glossaries and texts, and Ciorănescu calls it a Transylvanian variant of turturea.^[2][5]

Meanings

Noun

1. (regional, Transylvania) the turtle dove, the same bird as turturea.^{[3][2][11][1]}

Related words

• Aromanian turturã
• Latin turtur

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. turtură
3. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1307
4. ^ Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. turturea
5. ^ a b c Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. turturea
6. ^ Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1059
7. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1935), Meglenoromânii III: Dicționar meglenoromân, București: Academia Română, p. 305
8. ^ Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 1, 174
9. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
10. ^ a b Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
11. ^ Bulgăr, Gheorghe; Constantinescu-Dobridor, Gheorghe (2002), Dicționar de arhaisme și regionalisme, 2 vols., București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. turtură