tornus

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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.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    Borrowed 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

    Noun

    tornus m (genitive tornī); second declension

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

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative tornus tornī
    genitive tornī tornōrum
    dative tornō tornīs
    accusative tornum tornōs
    ablative tornō tornīs
    vocative torne tornī

    Derived terms

    Descendants

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

    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.
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