tutubo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

tūtŭbo, āre, v. n. [onomatop.],

to cry like an owl , to hoot : noctua lucifugax tutubat in tenebris, Auct. Carm. Philom. 41 (al. cucubat); cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 96.