torneio
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tor‧nei‧o
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese torneyo, from Old Occitan tornei,[1] from Latin tornō (“to turn; to lathe”).
Noun edit
torneio m (plural torneios)
- (sports) tournament (series of games)
- Synonyms: competição, copa
- (historical) joust (mock combat between two knights)
- Synonym: justa
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Deverbal from tornear (“to lathe”),[1] from torno (“lathe”), from Latin tornus (“lathe”).
Noun edit
torneio m (plural torneios)
- the act of lathing
- Synonym: torneamento
- the quality of an object which was lathed
- (figurative) elegance; refinement
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
torneio
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “torneio” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.