DictionaryRoot: tornare
Latin

tornare

to turn on a lathe

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A white woman turns a round door handle with her hand.
verb / noun

turn

TURN/tɜːrn/

A change in orientation.

Etymology

Latin tornare described shaping an object while rotating it on a lathe. That concrete workshop action supplies the central image of movement around an axis or fixed point.

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