tornus

See also: torņus

English

The moth Agathia pisina has a white spot at the tornus of each of its hindwings.

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Noun

tornus (plural torni)

1. (entomology) The bottom corner of a wing.

Related terms

• tornal

Anagrams

• Ruston, tourns, unsort

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “carpenter's tool for drawing a circle; turning lathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔrnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔrnus]

Noun

tornus m (genitive tornī); second declension

1. A turner's wheel, lathe.
2. A potter's wheel.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tornus	tornī
Genitive	tornī	tornōrum
Dative	tornō	tornīs
Accusative	tornum	tornōs
Ablative	tornō	tornīs
Vocative	torne	tornī

Derived terms

• tornō

Related terms

• tornātilis
• tornātor
• tornātūra

Descendants

• Catalan: torn
• French: tour
• Galician: torno
• → German: Turnus
• Italian: tornio
• Portuguese: torno
• Spanish: torno
  • Spanish: tornillo

References

• “tornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tornus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tornus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.