The corpus record — Latin

turtur

dove

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 5 · 3.19/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Epigrammata 5 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 16 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. turtur — de Vaan

turtur 'dove'. The original form could then have been *uelH-tor- 'tearer'. While conceivable, this does not appeal much to me. Bibl.: WH II: 830E, EM 751, IEW 482. -> *we/olt(o)rvoltus, -us 'facial expression, face' [m. u] (P1.+; CLat vultus) Derivatives: volta, -drum [n.pl.] 'face, look' (Enn., Lucr.). Pit. *we/oltu-. PIE *u(e)l-tu- 'gaze, view'. IE cognates: Olr. fil, feil/fail 'there is', MW gwelet, volvo MCo. … — [de Vaan, s.v. turtur, p. 702]

2. turtur — Lewis & Short

turtur, ŭris, m. (

I fem. turturis marinae os, Dict Cret. 6, 15; Plin. 30, 8, 21, § 68), a turtle-dove: Columba turtur, Linn.; Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; Varr. R. R. 3, 8; Col. 8, 9; Pall. 1, 25; Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 44; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 35; id. Poen. 2, 40; Verg. E. 1, 59; Ov. Am. 2, 6, 12; Mart. 3, 60, 7; 13, 53, 1; Juv. 6, 39.

3. turtur — Walde–Hofmann

turtur, -is m. f. p Lurteltaube? (seit Plaut., rom.), turturilla, -ae f. „weibische Person* (seit Sen.; ın obszönem Sinn: turturilla : loc in quibus corruptélae fiebant, dicti quod ibi turtur opera daretur, i.e. pàni Cl): expressiv, schallnachahmend, vgl. «pupa, murmur usw. (Ernout-Meillet? 1067). Weiter verwandt sind die unter tetrinniö besprochenen Vogelnamen (Wharton Et. lat. 109, Persson Wzerw. 196?). Vgl. zur … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. turtur, p. 1628]

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. turtur (scan pp. 702-703; entry #2012). Root candidates: *uel-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. turtur (scan p. 733; entry #12232).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. turtur (scan p. 1628; entry #3127).

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