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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tórmos (“borehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, bore, twist”). Cognate with Hittite (tarma-, “nail, peg”), as well as perhaps Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“gut, intestine”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tór.mos/ → /ˈtor.mos/ → /ˈtor.mos/
Noun
τόρμος • (tórmos) m (genitive τορμου); second declension
- a hole or socket in which a peg is stuck
- a nave of a wheel
- a tenon
- a projecting peg or pivot
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References
Further reading
- “τόρμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τόρμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “τόρμος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011