English Explanatory Dictionary

Turin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Turin and the region of Piedmont, Italy.
  2. A metropolitan city of Piedmont, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Turin.
  3. A former province of Piedmont.
  4. Other places:
  5. A hamlet in Lethbridge County, Alberta, Canada.
  6. A place in the United States:
  7. A town in Coweta County, Georgia.
  8. A minor city in Monona County, Iowa.
  9. A township in Marquette County, Michigan.
  10. A town and village therein, in Lewis County, New York.
  11. A surname.

Pronunciation

/tjʊəˈɹɪn/ /təˈɹɪn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Turin.wav

Word forms

Turin Turins

Etymology

From Piedmontese Turin, from the Roman name, Latin Augusta Taurinōrum, ultimately from the name of the Taurini tribe. Connections to Latin taurus (“bull”) are folk etymology. Doublet of Torino, the Italian name.

Related words

Torino Turinese

Translations

Arabic: تُورِينُو Armenian: Թուրին Bulgarian: Тори́но Catalan: Torí Chinese Mandarin: 杜林 Chinese Mandarin: 都靈 /都灵 Corsican: Torinu Corsican: Turinu Czech: Turín Danish: Torino Dutch: Turijn Estonian: Torino Finnish: Torino French: Turin West-Frisian: Turyn Galician: Turín Georgian: ტურინი Georgian: ტორინო German: Turin Greek: Τορίνο Greek: Τουρίνο Hindi: टोरीनो Italian: Torino Japanese: トリノ Korean: 토리노 Latin: Augusta Taurinorum Latin: Taurinum Macedonian: Тори́но Maltese: Turin Marathi: तोरिनो Polish: Turyn Portuguese: Turim Russian: Тури́н Serbo-Croatian: Torino Serbo-Croatian: Торино Spanish: Turín Swedish: Turin Thai: ตูริน Turkish: Torino Vietnamese: Torino
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