English
contorno
Contorno comes from Italian contorno ‘contour, outline’, from tornare ‘to return, to come back’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, turn’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₁-‘to rub, turn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tórh₁nosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tórnosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτόρνοςtórnos‘a lathe’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornus‘a turner's wheel, lathe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornō‘to turn’
- Italianc. 1300–presenttornare‘to return, to come back’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentcontornaredeverb.
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentcontorno‘contour, outline’
- Englishearliest quotation 1798same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₁-‘to rub, turn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tórh₁nosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tórnosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτόρνοςtórnos‘a lathe’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornus‘a turner's wheel, lathe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornō‘to turn’
- Italianc. 1300–presenttornare‘to return, to come back’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentcontornaredeverb.
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentcontorno‘contour, outline’
- Englishearliest quotation 1798same form
Earliest quotation: 1798, James Barry: “[…] the parts within the contorno are drawn by…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, turn’
throw, thread, tragic, threshold, trout, detrimental, thrash, tyrone, detriment, overturn, attrition, triage, trite, termite, detritus, tribulation, thresher, upturn, tyro, truant, thresh, derma, 36 more
through Latin tornus ‘a turner's wheel, lathe’
through Latin tornō ‘to turn’
Today it means
noun contour; outline
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- / contorno