tornar

From Latin tornāre, present active infinitive of tornō.

tornar (first-person singular indicative present torno, past participle tornáu)

1. to turn
2. to turn back

From Old Catalan tornar, from Latin tornāre.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /toɾˈna/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /turˈna/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /toɾˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

tornar (first-person singular present torno, past participle tornat)

1. (intransitive) to return, to go/come back
2. (transitive) to return, to give back
3. (~ a +infinitive) to do again

• tornar-se

• “tornar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin tornāre (“to turn”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “carpenter's tool for drawing a circle; turning lathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈnaɾ/

tornar (first-person singular present torno, first-person singular preterite tornei, past participle tornado)

1. (auxiliary with a and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) (to do something) again; to return to
   • 1862, Ramón Barros Sibelo, Desdichas do meu amor:

     Acaba se por fin a noit'escura

     E o día torna a vir

     The dark night finally ends

     And the day comes again

2. (transitive) to turn
3. (transitive) to turn back
4. (transitive) to drive away
   • 1812, Ramón González Serna, Carta Recomendada:

     é ó mesmo que tornar os paxaros de un tarreo para que non coman ó grao, é deixar ó mesmo tempo portelos abertos para que ó coman os porcos

     it is the same as driving away the birds from a terrain so that they don't eat the grain, and then leaving the gates open for the pigs to do it

   Synonym: escorrentar

5. (intransitive) to repugn

   Ese caldo torna! Está podre! ― That broths repugns! It's spoiled!

6. (intransitive) to return

   Synonym: volver

7. (intransitive) to change; to transform; to become
   • c1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:

     Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se torne espeso como jngento

     for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, kneaded and cooked and stirred till it becomes thick as an ointment

   Synonym: volver

• torna
• torno

• “tornar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tornar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tornar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tornar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tornar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

tornar (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of tornare

tornar m

1. indefinite plural of torn

From Old Occitan tornar, from Latin tornāre, present active infinitive of tornō.

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tornar

1. to return; to come back

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From Latin tornāre, present active infinitive of tornō.

tornar

1. (transitive) to turn (to rotate or reorient)
2. (with en) to turn into

• Catalan: tornar

From Old Portuguese tornar, from Latin tornāre.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɔɦˈna(h)/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuɹˈna(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: tor‧nar

tornar (first-person singular present torno, first-person singular preterite tornei, past participle tornado)

1. (ditransitive) to make (to cause to be)

   A recessão tornou tudo caro. ― The recession made everything expensive.

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become; to turn into

   De novo, através da investigação, torna-se claro. ― Again, by investigation, it becomes clear.

   O príncipe tornou-se um sapo. ― The prince became a toad.

   Synonyms: ficar, transformar-se em, virar

3. (intransitive, or transitive with a) to return; to come back

   Precisamos tornar imediatamente! ― We need to return immediately!

   Synonyms: retornar, voltar

4. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking a) to return (to give back)

   O ladrão não quis tornar as joias aos donos. ― The thief didn’t want to return the jewels to the owners.

   Synonyms: devolver, restituir, retornar

5. (auxiliary with a and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) (to do something) again; to return to

   Ele tornou a roubar depois que saiu da cadeia. ― He returned to stealing after he got out of jail.

6. inflection of tornar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

Inherited from Latin tornāre. Cognate with English turn.

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈnaɾ/ [t̪oɾˈnaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tor‧nar

tornar (first-person singular present torno, first-person singular preterite torné, past participle tornado)

1. (transitive) to return

   Synonym: devolver

2. (intransitive) to come back; to go back
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Como además vieron al doctor Sedeño abstraído en la lectura de los periódicos políticos, tornaron al jardín.

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   Synonyms: regresar, retornar, volver

3. (transitive) to put back
4. (transitive) to change
5. (intransitive) to do again (+ a + infinitive)
6. (intransitive) to revive (to recover from a state of unconsciousness)
7. (reflexive) to become (e.g. change in a characteristic, nature of something or status)

• “tornar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

tornar

1. present tense of torna.

• tronar

From Latin tornāre (compare Italian tornare), present active infinitive of tornō (“turn”).

tornar

1. (transitive, intransitive) to return

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.