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tornar

Pronunciation: /toɾˈnaɾ/

“tornar” is a Galician word. Its 7 meanings in English:

verb

  1. (to do something) again; to return to
  2. to turn
  3. to turn back
  4. to drive away
  5. to be repugnant, to be disgusting
  6. to return
  7. to change; to transform; to become

In Galician

  1. Facer que algo ou alguén se vaia de onde está.
  2. Facer que unha cousa pase a ser outra distinta.
  3. Alterar o estado ou as calidades dunha cousa.
  4. Ir outra vez ao sitio de onde se saíu.
  5. Sufrir algo ou alguén unha alteración de maneira que pase a ser outra cousa que non era.
  6. Sufrir algo unha alteración que o converte noutra cousa distinta.
  7. Sufrir alguén unha alteración de maneira que pase a ser outra cousa que non era.

Etymology

From Latin tornāre (“to turn”), 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”).

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