English Explanatory Dictionary

Torno

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Torno Tornos

Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Torno, a metonymic occupational surname for a turner, from torno, older form of tornio (“lathe”). * Borrowed from Spanish Torno, a habitational surname from the village of El Torno, in Extremadura. * Altered spelling of a German or Polish habitational surname from the city of Tarnów, in Poland.

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