tornus
See also: torņus
English
The moth Agathia pisina has a white spot at the tornus of each of its hindwings.
Noun
tornus (plural torni)
- (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) IPA(key): /ˈtor.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔrnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtor.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔrnus]
Noun
tornus m (genitive tornī); second declension
- A turner's wheel, lathe.
- 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