tornio

See also: Tornio

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin tornus, in this variant probably through an intermediate form *torneus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtor.njo/, /ˈtɔr.njo/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ornjo, -ɔrnjo
  • Hyphenation: tór‧nio, tòr‧nio

Noun

tornio m (plural torni)

  1. lathe (machine tool used to shape a piece of material)

Descendants
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *turnijan (see there for further descendants)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: طورنو (torno, turno) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. tornio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading
  • tornio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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