tornis
Catalan
Verb
tornis
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Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) tornīs
Latvian
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German torn or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch toorn or an East Frisian word (compare West Frisian toer; also compare German Turm), itself a borrowing, via Old Frisian torn, from Latin turris (accusative turrem). A dialectal German form Turn, borrowed as turnis, would in the Kurzeme dialects yield tornis (with [uo]). This word is first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
tornis m (2nd declension)
- tower (tall, cylindrical or similarly shaped structure in a building)
- baznīcas, pils tornis ― church, castle tower
- skatu, novērošanas tornis ― observation tower
- ugunsdzēsēju tornis ― fire tower
- televīzijas tornis ― television tower
- cietokšņa tornis ― fortress tower
- vadības tornis ― control tower
- koka, tērauda tornis ― wooden, steel tower
- dzelzsbetona tornis ― reinforced concrete tower
- torņa augša ― top of the tower
- torņa pulkstenis ― tower clock
- tank, silo (large vertical building used to store grain)
- skābbarības tornis ― silo (lit. silage tower)
- (chess) rook (chess piece shaped like a castle tower)
- iesaistīt torni spēlē ― to involve, employ the rook in the game
Declension
Declension of tornis (2nd declension)
See also
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karalis | dāma | tornis | laidnis | zirdziņš | bandinieks |
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tornis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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