turn

Examples: "I can see the turn from here." "That turn belongs to me." "The turn is very important."

Middle English {it}turnen, tornen,{/it} in part going back to Old English {it}tyrnan, turnian{/it} "to move round on an axis, come round cyclically, cause to move about an axis, shift position," borrowed from early Medieval Latin {it}tornāre,{/it} going back to Latin, "to make round by turning on a lathe," derivative of {it}tornus{/it} "lathe," borrowed from Greek {it}tórnos{/it} "peg and string used to trace circles, central point, lathe"; in part borrowed from Anglo-French {it}turner, torner, tourner{/it} (also continental Old French), going back to early Medieval Latin {it}tornāre{/it}; Greek {it}tórnos{/it} going back to Indo-European {it}*torh{inf}1{/inf}-n-o,{/it} derivative of the verbal base {it}*ter{inf}h{/inf}1-{/it} "rub, bore" {ma}{mat|trite|}{/ma}