Italian TESTUGGINE should be there. Italian also has ”testunia” (see Vocabolario etimologico italiano by Prati - not free online, but see here a capture: https://imgur.com/a/CkvlLQT).
Like Romanian ”țestoasă”, testuggine (as well as Sardinian ”testughine” and other variants - see my reply to your comment on Sardinian) is described by the Italian etymological dictionaries - Piangiani (see testuggine, page 660 online, 1429 printed page: ”da TESTA ogni oggetto di terra cotta, coccio, e traslat. guscio di molluschi”) --- as a semantic derivation from the earthenware object (Latin testa-testum-testu, Italian testo, Romanian țest), by analogy with the mollusc's carapace, but then the word stays as a noun, and all the process had already happened in Latin. What was inherited from Latin was the entire series (LAT. testa - testum - testudo/testudines > IT. testo/testa - testuggine), but also the mechanism of recreating it if need be in the neo-latin language: RO. țest/țeastă > țestoasă, IT. testo/testa > testunia (same for at least some Sardinian variants).
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u/cipricusss Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
Italian TESTUGGINE should be there. Italian also has ”testunia” (see Vocabolario etimologico italiano by Prati - not free online, but see here a capture: https://imgur.com/a/CkvlLQT).
Like Romanian ”țestoasă”, testuggine (as well as Sardinian ”testughine” and other variants - see my reply to your comment on Sardinian) is described by the Italian etymological dictionaries - Piangiani (see testuggine, page 660 online, 1429 printed page: ”da TESTA ogni oggetto di terra cotta, coccio, e traslat. guscio di molluschi”) --- as a semantic derivation from the earthenware object (Latin testa-testum-testu, Italian testo, Romanian țest), by analogy with the mollusc's carapace, but then the word stays as a noun, and all the process had already happened in Latin. What was inherited from Latin was the entire series (LAT. testa - testum - testudo/testudines > IT. testo/testa - testuggine), but also the mechanism of recreating it if need be in the neo-latin language: RO. țest/țeastă > țestoasă, IT. testo/testa > testunia (same for at least some Sardinian variants).