tornis
CatalanEdit
VerbEdit
tornis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of tornar
LatinEdit
NounEdit
tornīs
LatvianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle Low German torn or Middle Dutch toorn or an East Frisian word (compare West Frisian toer; also compare German Turm), itself a borrowing, via Old Frisian torn, from Latin turris (accusative turrem). A dialectal German form Turn, borrowed as turnis, would in the Kurzeme dialects yield tornis (with [uo]). This word is first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tornis m (2nd declension)
- tower (tall, cylindrical or similarly shaped structure in a building)
- baznīcas, pils tornis ― church, castle tower
- skatu, novērošanas tornis ― observation tower
- ugunsdzēsēju tornis ― fire tower
- televīzijas tornis ― television tower
- cietokšņa tornis ― fortress tower
- vadības tornis ― control tower
- koka, tērauda tornis ― wooden, steel tower
- dzelzsbetona tornis ― reinforced concrete tower
- torņa augša ― top of the tower
- torņa pulkstenis ― tower clock
- tank, silo (large vertical building used to store grain)
- skābbarības tornis ― silo (lit. silage tower)
- (chess) rook (chess piece shaped like a castle tower)
- iesaistīt torni spēlē ― to involve, employ the rook in the game
DeclensionEdit
Declension of tornis (2nd declension)
See alsoEdit
Chess pieces in Latvian · [Term?] (layout · text) | |||||
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karalis | dāma | tornis | laidnis | zirdziņš | bandinieks |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) , “tornis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN