Turnus

See also: turnus

English

Noun

Turnus

  1. Papilio glaucus, the eastern tiger swallowtail, a butterfly of eastern North America.
    • 1917, Marie Conway Oemler, Slippy McGee: Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
      The Turnus is perhaps the most beautiful of our butterflies […]

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Latin tornus.

Noun

Turnus m (genitive Turnus or Turnusses, plural Turnusse)

  1. rotation (regular change)

Declension

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Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtur.nus/, [ˈtʊr.nʊs]

Proper noun

Turnus m (genitive Turnī); second declension

  1. (Roman mythology) A king of the Rutuli killed by Aeneas

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular
nominative Turnus
genitive Turnī
dative Turnō
accusative Turnum
ablative Turnō
vocative Turne

References

  • Turnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Turnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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