tūtŭbo

āre, v. n.

onomatop.

I. to cry like an owl, to hoot: noctua lucifugax tutubat in tenebris, Auct. Carm. Philom. 41 (al. cucubat); cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 96.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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