Noun: tornis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | tornis |
| Accusative | torni |
| Genitive | torņa |
| Dative | tornim |
| Instrumental | torni |
| Locative | tornī |
| Vocative | torni |
Plural
| Nominative | torņi |
| Accusative | torņus |
| Genitive | torņu |
| Dative | torņiem |
| Instrumental | torņiem |
| Locative | torņos |
| Vocative | torņi |
Sample Sentences
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baznīcas, pils tornis (church, castle tower)
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skatu, novērošanas tornis (observation tower)
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ugunsdzēsēju tornis (fire tower)
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televīzijas tornis (television tower)
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cietokšņa tornis (fortress tower)
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vadības tornis (control tower)
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koka, tērauda tornis (wooden, steel tower)
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dzelzsbetona tornis (reinforced concrete tower)
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torņa augša (top of the tower)
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torņa pulkstenis (tower clock)
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skābbarības tornis (silo (lit. silage tower))
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iesaistīt torni spēlē (to involve, employ the rook in the game)
Nouns inflected like tornis
sapnis,
sainis,
skanis,
sniegputenis,
bārenis,
lentenis,
spēkonis,
zvīnis,
zirnis,
sūknis,
ukrainis,
spilvenis,
stundenis,
gavēnis,
ūdenstornis,
skaļrunis,
kustonis,
gubumākonis,
stulbenis,
līdzskanis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German torn or 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. See: German Nouns '
Turm', Latin Nouns '
turris'.
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