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τόρν-ος

tornos

carving knife, lathe, turning-lathe, pair of compasses, circle

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1. τόρνος · tornos — Beekes

τόρνος [m.] ‘carving knife, lathe, turning-lathe, pair of compasses, circle’ (Thgn, IA). «1Ὲ *torh,,-no- ‘turner, borer’> 1496 τορός *COMP ἔντορνος ‘processed with a turning-lathe, turned, revolved’ (Pi, Arist. inscr.), whence évtopvia [f.], -evw [v.] (Hero). *DER 1. topv-iokog [m.] ‘turning-lathe’ (Ph. Bel., Delos). 2. topv-ia σταφυλή (Poll.) kind of grape. 3. τορν-όομαι, -dw ‘to draw a circle, measure precisely’ … — [Beekes, s.v. τόρνος, p. 1546]

2. τόρνος · tornos — Frisk

τόρνος m. “Schnitzmesser, Dreheisen, Drehbank, Eisen zur Vorzeichnung eines Kreiscs, Zirkellinie’ (Thgn., ion. att.). Einige Kompp. z.B. £r-topvog “mit einem Dreheisen bearbeitet, gedrechselt, rundgedreht’ (Pl., Arist., Inschr. u.a.) mit ἐντορν-ία, -eüw (Hero). — Davon 1. roov-ioxoc m. “Dreheisen’ (Ph. Bel., Delos; vgl. ößeA-ioxog u.a. Chantraine Form. 408). 2. -ia σταφυλή (Poll.), -ἰος οἶνος (Hp.). 3. -ὅομαι, -dw … — [Frisk, s.v. τόρνος, p. 1885]

3. τόρν-ος · torn-os — LSJ

carpenterʼs tool for drawing a circle, compasses

carpenterʼs tool for drawing a circle, like our compasses, prob. a pin at the end of a string, Lat. tornus (Plin. HN 7.198), Thgn. 805; κυκλοτερὴς ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου (of the representation of the earth in early maps) Hdt. 4.36; τροχὸς τόρνῳ γραφόμενος E. Ba. 1067 (perh. in signf. II); κύκλος τις ὡς τόρνοισιν ἐκμετρούμενος Id. Fr. 382.3.

2 centre

κύκλου τ. the centre of a circle, X. Vect. 1.6.

II turning-lathe, lathe

turning-lathe, βόμβυκας τόρνου κάματον A. Fr. 57.3 (anap.); καθάπερ τῆς ἐν τόρνψ κυκλοφορουμένης σφαίρας as of a ball being turned in a lathe, Arist. Mu. 391b22; τὰ τοῖς τόρνοις γιγνόμενα ἐπίπεδά τε καὶ στερεά Pl. Phlb. 51c, cf. 56c; ὁ Ἰουδαϊκὸς λίθος . . ἔχων γραμμὰς παραλλήλους ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου Dsc. 5.137; metae . . ex torno ita perfectae, ut alia in aliam inire convenireque possit, Vitr. 9.8.6, cf. 10.7.3; ἄξων ἀπὸ τόρνου εἰργασμένος Hero Spir. 1.16, cf. Aut. 11.2.

III that which is turned, circle, round

that which is turned, circle, round, D.P. 157.

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