torneo

torneo

See also: torneó

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese torneo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French tornoi or Old Occitan tornei, from Latin tornō (“I turn; I lathe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɔɾˈneʊ]

Noun

torneo m (plural torneos)

1. tourney, tournament
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 725:

     Et aly ouue hũu torneo soado, que disserõ de Astela, por que foy soado; ca ali sse prouarõ en armas moytos caualeyros.

     And there it was held a famous tournament, that they called of Estela, that was famous; because there many knight proved themselves in arms

   Synonym: xusta

2. competition, contest

   Synonym: competición

Related terms

• tornar

References

• “torneo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “torneo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “torneo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “torneo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /torˈnɛ.o/
• Rhymes: -ɛo
• Hyphenation: tor‧nè‧o

Noun

torneo m (plural tornei)

1. tournament
2. competition (sports)

Anagrams

• Oronte, noterò, rotone, tonerò

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Spanish

Etymology

torno +‎ -eo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈneo/ [t̪oɾˈne.o]
• (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: tor‧ne‧o

Noun

torneo m (plural torneos)

1. tournament; tourney
2. competition; contest

Verb

torneo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tornear

Further reading

• “torneo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014