turnus

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turnus (plural turnuses)

1. Papilio glaucus, the eastern tiger swallowtail, a butterfly of eastern North America.
   • 1917, Marie Conway Oemler, Slippy McGee: Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man:

     The Turnus is perhaps the most beautiful of our butterflies […]

• u-turns, U-turns, unrust

turnus c (singular definite turnussen, plural indefinite turnusser)

1. change between tasks according to a fixed agreed schedule; shiftwork
   • 2013, Shani Boianjiu, Det evige folk har ingen frygt, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     ... de blev fanget efter at have stjålet hegnet, at ingen af de andre drenge kom tilbage til basen igen. Vores lille base afholdt fem dage lange træningsforløb hver måned for den deling, der tog turnussen rundt om Hebron og langs Hovedvej 433.

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   • 2014, Merete Junker, Pigen med ballonen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Eller tilhøjere profilerede job i NRK's hovedkvarter i Oslo. Men Kvisle blev stående. Han har selv tydeligt udbasuneret, at han er led og ked af turnussen. Led og ked af at løbe rundt. Led og ked af at måtte forholde sigtilny teknik. Hans hoveder ...

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• IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/
• Hyphenation: turn‧us

turnus

1. conditional of turni

• IPA^(key):

turnus (plural turnusok)

1. turn

   Synonyms: forduló, menet

1. shift (change of workers)

   Synonym: műszak

• turnus in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/

turnus

1. conditional of turnar

Ultimately from English turnip. Compare dialectal Finnish turnus. See also Russian турнепс (turneps) and Swedish turnips.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/,
• Rhymes: -urnus
• Hyphenation: tur‧nus

turnus

1. turnip used for fodder

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 610

Borrowed from German Turnus, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.nus/
• Rhymes: -urnus
• Syllabification: tur‧nus

turnus m inan

1. spell, stay (period of time spent on a holiday, on a course, etc.)
2. camp, course (place where such a time is spent)
3. (colloquial) group, cohort, busload

• turnus in Polish dictionaries at PWN