tornis
Catalan
Verb
tornis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of tornar
Latin
Noun
tornīs
- dative/ablative plural of tornus
Latvian
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Skābbarības tornis (2)
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Tornis (1)
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Tornis (3)
Etymology
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]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tūōrnis]
Noun
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
Declension
Declension of tornis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | tornis | torņi |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | torni | torņus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | torņa | torņu |
dative (datīvs) | tornim | torņiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | torni | torņiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | tornī | torņos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | torni | torņi |
See also
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karalis | dāma | tornis | laidnis | zirdziņš | bandinieks |
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “tornis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN