tartaruga

Borrowed from Italian tartaruga.

• Hyphenation: tar‧ta‧ru‧ga

tartaruga f (plural tartarugas)

1. turtle, tortoise

   Synonym: sapoconcho

From 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.

• IPA^(key): /tar.taˈru.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Hyphenation: tar‧ta‧rù‧ga

tartaruga f (plural tartarughe)

1. turtle, tortoise
2. tortoiseshell (carapace of a tortoise)
3. (military) testudo (Roman military formation)
4. (cooking) type of bread roll having a pattern of criss-cross incisions

   Synonym: pane tartaruga

5. (colloquial) clipping of addominali a tartaruga (“six pack (of one's abs)”)

• tartarughina

• → Galician: tartaruga
• → Portuguese: tartaruga
• → Spanish: tartaruga

• testuggine

• 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

• targatura

Borrowed from Italian tartaruga, from Late Latin tartarucha, feminine of tartaruchus, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “inhabitant of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros, “Tartarus”).

Sense 3 comes from the shape of a cat's eye that resembles a turtle shell.

• Rhymes: -uɡɐ
• Hyphenation: tar‧ta‧ru‧ga

tartaruga f (plural tartarugas)

1. turtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)

   Synonyms: quelônio / quelónio, testudíneo

   Hyponyms: cágado, jabuti, tartaruga-marinha

2. (strictly) sea turtle

   Synonym: tartaruga-marinha

4. (colloquial) cat's eye (traffic retroreflective device)

   Synonyms: tachão, olho de gato

5. (figuratively, colloquial) a slow person

• “tartaruga”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “tartaruga”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “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, 2003–2025
• “tartaruga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “tartaruga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Portuguese tartaruga.

• IPA^(key): /taɾtaˈɾuɡa/ [t̪aɾ.t̪aˈɾu.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Syllabification: tar‧ta‧ru‧ga

tartaruga f (plural tartarugas)

1. turtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)

   Synonyms: tortuga, quelonio

2. (figuratively, colloquial) (a slow person)