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The moth Agathia pisina has a white spot at the tornus of each of its hindwings.

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tornus (plural torni)

1. (entomology) The bottom corner of a wing.

• tornal
• Ruston, tourns, unsort

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtor.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔrnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtor.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔrnus]

tornus m (genitive tornī); second declension

1. A turner's wheel, lathe.
2. A potter's wheel.

Second-declension noun.

• tornō

• tornātilis

• tornātor

• tornātūra

• Catalan: torn

• French: tour

• Galician: torno

• → German: Turnus

• Italian: tornio

• Portuguese: torno

• Spanish: torno

  • Spanish: tornillo

• “tornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “tornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• tornus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• tornus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.