tourte

• IPA^(key): /tuʁt/

From tourte (also spelled tourtre), from Old French, from Latin turtur (“turtle, turtledove”). See tourterelle.

tourte f (plural tourtes)

1. (Quebec) passenger pigeon (compare tourte voyageuse, colombe voyageuse, Ectopistes migratorius, pigeon migrateur, Ectopistes migratorius)
2. (Louisiana) dove

• tourterelle, tourtereau

From Old French tourte, from Late Latin torta (possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate root *turta; compare Spanish torta, Romanian turtă, Romansh turta, Sardinian turta), from torta (“twisted”) panis (“bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”). Cognate to Spanish torta.

tourte f (plural tourtes)

1. meat pie

   Synonyms: pâté à la viande, tourtière (Quebec)

• tarte
• tourtière

• tordre

• tortue

• “tourte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).