1. τόρνος · tornos — Beekes
carving knife, lathe, turning-lathe, pair of compasses, circle
The corpus record
τόρν-ος
tornos
carving knife, lathe, turning-lathe, pair of compasses, circle
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Distribution
- Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Philebus 2 · 1.13/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
Senses
2. τόρνος · tornos — Frisk
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3. τόρν-ος · torn-os — LSJ
carpenterʼs tool for drawing a circle
Attestations
- τόρνου · tornou Herodotus, Histories 4.36.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4308)
- τόρνῳ · tornōi Euripides, Bacchae 1066–1067
- τόρνον · tornon Xenophon, Ways and Means 1.6 (DIORISIS sentence 17)
- τόρνοις · tornois Plato, Philebus 51
- τόρνῳ · tornōi Plato, Philebus 56
- τόρνωι · tornōi Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 13)
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