tornus

== English == (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === tornus (plural torni) (entomology) The bottom corner of a wing. ==== Related terms ==== tornal === Anagrams === Ruston, tourns, unsort == Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtornus/ Rhymes: -ornus Syllabification: tor‧nus === Verb === tornus conditional of torni == 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɔr.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɔr.nus] === Noun === tornus m (genitive tornī); second declension A turner's wheel, lathe. A potter's wheel. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== tornō ==== Related terms ==== tornātilis tornātor tornātūra ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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.