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“turtur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“turtur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
turtur 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)
turtur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinturtur(“turtle² (turtledove)”), of imitative origin. (See André Cherpillod: Vortaro Volapük-Esperanto kaj Esperanto-Volapük — turtur(“cooing”) = kverado(“cooing”) from kveri(“to coo”) (p. 101) )
