turnus

See also: Turnus

English

Noun

turnus (plural turnuses)

  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


Danish

Noun

turnus c (singular definite turnussen, plural indefinite turnusser)

  1. change between tasks according to a fixed agreed schedule; shiftwork
    • 2013, Shani Boianjiu, Det evige folk har ingen frygt, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
      ... de blev fanget efter at have stjålet hegnet, at ingen af de andre drenge kom tilbage til basen igen. Vores lille base afholdt fem dage lange træningsforløb hver måned for den deling, der tog turnussen rundt om Hebron og langs Hovedvej 433.
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    • 2014, Merete Junker, Pigen med ballonen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
      Eller tilhøjere profilerede job i NRK's hovedkvarter i Oslo. Men Kvisle blev stående. Han har selv tydeligt udbasuneret, at han er led og ked af turnussen. Led og ked af at løbe rundt. Led og ked af at måtte forholde sigtilny teknik. Hans hoveder ...
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈturnus/
  • Hyphenation: turn‧us

Verb

turnus

  1. conditional of turni

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈturnus/

Verb

turnus

  1. conditional of turnar

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Turnus, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtur.nus/
  • Rhymes: -urnus
  • Syllabification: tur‧nus

Noun

turnus m inan

  1. spell, stay (period of time spent on a holiday, on a course, etc.)
  2. camp, course (place where such a time is spent)
  3. (colloquial) group, cohort, busload

Declension

Further reading

  • turnus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • turnus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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