Noun: tornasole
Gender: m
Hyphenation: tor‧na‧só‧le
| Singular m | tornasole |
| Plural m | tornasoli |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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cartina tornasole (litmus paper)
Nouns inflected like tornasole
rigeneratore,
biancomangiare,
interneurone,
tiomersale,
chemiorecettore,
posteggiatore,
concelebrante,
pleistocene,
kudu maggiore,
sepide,
setale,
segone,
sedere,
sedime,
sedile,
gremiale,
chiarificatore,
savore,
sapere,
sapone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-nos
4. Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos
5. Proto-Hellenic *tórnos
6. Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor.
7. Latin tornus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Latin tornō
17. Italian tornare
18. Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥
19. Latin sōl
20. Italian Sole
21. Italian tornasole
22. Verb-object compound, composed of torna (“to turn”) + Sole (“Sun”). Compare modern Italian girasole.
23. Sense 2 originated from litmus originally being taken from said plant. Compare French tournesol and Spanish tornasol. See: French Nouns '
tournesol', Spanish Nouns '
tornasol'.
Verbs referencing "tornasole"
French Nouns
tournesol.
Translations