torn

• (General American) enPR: tôrn, IPA^(key): /tɔɹn/

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• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tôn, IPA^(key): /tɔːn/

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōrn, IPA^(key): /to(ː)ɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /toən/
  • Homophone: tawn (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

torn

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

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

torn (comparative more torn, superlative most torn)

1. Unable to decide between multiple options.

   I'm torn between pizza and hamburgers.

• -tron, ront, tron

From Latin tornus. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

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

torn m (plural torns)

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

   Synonym: tanda

• tornejar

• “torn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “torn” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “torn” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

From Middle Low German tōrn, from Old French tor.

torn (genitive torni, partitive torni)

1. tower

• torn in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• “torn”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɔɻɳ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɻɳ

From Old Norse þorn (“thorn”), 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.

torn f (genitive singular tornar, plural tornir)

1. (botany) hawthorn bush; thorn

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

torn n (genitive singular torns, plural torn)

1. tower, belfry, spire
2. dungeon

• tornklokka
• klokkutorn

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/, [torˠn]

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. inflection of turna:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

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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

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

torn c

1. (botany) thorn

• torn in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• torn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• torn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• torn in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• tron