tourte
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From tourte (also spelled tourtre), from Old French, from Latin turtur (“turtle, turtledove”). See tourterelle.
Noun
tourte f (plural tourtes)
- (Quebec) passenger pigeon (compare tourte voyageuse, colombe voyageuse, Ectopistes migratorius, pigeon migrateur, Ectopistes migratorius)
- (Louisiana) dove
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Etymology 2
From Old French tourte, from Late Latin torta (possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate root *turta; compare Spanish torta, Romanian turtă, Romansch turta, Sardinian turta), from torta (“twisted”) panis (“bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”). Cognate to Spanish torta.
Noun
tourte f (plural tourtes)
- meat pie
- Synonyms: pâté à la viande, (Quebec) tourtière
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Further reading
- “tourte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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