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单词 turtur
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turturn.

Forms: Old English, Middle English turtur, (Middle English genitive turtres), Middle English–1600s turture, Middle English–1500s turtour, 1500s turtor.
Etymology: In Old English direct < Latin; compare Old High German turtur (Notker), Old Icelandic turturi. In Middle English partly < Old French turtre, tortre, tourtre, tourte, modern French tourtre; = Provençal tortre, Italian tortore, -ora, Old Spanish tortora (Spanish tortola); all representing Latin turtur-em, turtur, apparently an echoic name, imitating the cooing of the dove.
Obsolete.
= turtle n.1
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > member of genus Streptopelia
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > member of genus Streptopelia > streptopelia turtur (turtle-dove)
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c825 Vesp. Psalter lxxxiii. 4 [lxxxiv. 3] Speara gemoeted him hus & turtur nest hwer gesettað briddas his.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke ii. 24 Þætte sealdon..tuoe turturas vel tuoge birdas culfras.
971 Blickl. Hom. 23 Twegen culfran briddas..& twegen turturan gemæccan.
c1220 Bestiary 694 In boke is ðe turtres lif Writen o rime.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke ii. 24 Thei schulen ȝyue an offrynge..A peyre of turtris [a1425 L.V. turturis], or twey culuere briddis.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xii. xxxv The Turture is a semple bridde.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 556 With whete & milk in this thi turturs fede.
c1480 (a1400) St. Alexis 231 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 447 Þane scho sad,..þat but mak ay suld scho dwel as turtur.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 And be as turtoris in your talk..Be dragonis baith and dowis ay in double forme.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 126 Swete gentill turtour, quhair is ȝour pete went?
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 127 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 99 Ye turtour trewest Fferme faithfull & fast.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 81 The turtures..being an oblation.
attributive.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11304 And elles who þat myȝte not so Shulde offer turtur doufes two.
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