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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
tursiō m (genitive tursiōnis); third declension
- A kind of dolphin, perhaps the porpoise
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “tursio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tursio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.