torn

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tôn, IPA^(key): /tɔːn/
• (General American) enPR: tôrn, IPA^(key): /tɔɹn/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōrn, IPA^(key): /to(ː)ɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /toən/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophone: tawn (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

torn

1. past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).

• The past participle of the tear (“produce liquid from the eyes”), is teared.

• -tron, ront, tron

From Latin tornus.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾn/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtorn/

torn m (plural torns)

1. lathe, potter's wheel
2. turn, go (as in take turns or as a move in a game)

torn

1. Hard mutation of dorn.
2. Mixed mutation of dorn.

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).

torn c (singular definite tornen, plural indefinite torne)

1. thorn

• “torn” in Den Danske Ordbog

torn (genitive torni, partitive torni)

1. tower

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• torn in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz (“thorn, sloe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål torn, Icelandic þyrnir, Danish torn, Swedish törne, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

• IPA^(key): [tʰɔɻɳ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɻɳ

torn f (genitive singular tornar, plural tornir)

1. (botany) thorn

• IPA^(key): [tʰɔdn]
• Rhymes: -ɔdn

torn n (genitive singular torns, plural torn)

1. thorn, name of the letter þ

From late Old Norse turn, from Middle Low German torn, from Latin turris.

• IPA^(key): [tʰɔɻɳ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɻɳ

torn n (genitive singular torns, plural torn)

1. tower

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Danish torn, Swedish törne, Icelandic þyrnir, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

torn m (definite singular tornen, indefinite plural torner, definite plural tornene)

1. thorn

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Danish torn, Swedish törne, Icelandic þyrnir, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

torn m (definite singular tornen, indefinite plural tornar, definite plural tornane)

1. thorn

• IPA^(key): /torn/

From Proto-Germanic *turnaz (“bitter”).

torn

1. bitter; painful; severe

From Proto-Germanic *turnaz (“anger”).

torn n (nominative plural torn)

1. anger, anguish, distress

torn

1. first-person singular present indicative of turna
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of turna
3. third-person plural present indicative of turna

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From Old Norse turn, from Middle Low German tōrn, tōren, from Old French tor, from Latin turris, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis), from a Mediterranean substrate loan.

torn n

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

• → Finnish: torni

From Old Swedish þorn, from Old Norse þorn.

torn c

1. (botany) thorn