tartaruga

Meaning

1. (feminine) turtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)
2. (feminine) sea turtle
3. (colloquial,feminine) cat's eye (traffic retroreflective device)
4. (colloquial,feminine,figuratively) a slow person

Hyphenated as

tar‧ta‧ru‧ga

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taʁ.taˈɾu.ɡɐ/

Etymology

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.