# turner
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: tûrʹnər; IPA: /ˈtɝ.nɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûʹnə(r); IPA: /ˈtɜː.nə(ɹ)/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn +‎ -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

#### Noun

turner (plural turners)
* One who or that which turns.
** 2016, Robin Stevens, Murder Is Bad Manners (page 236)
    Everyone kept turning around and craning their necks to look at the gaps, and Miss Griffin gave all the turners and craners paralyzing stares whenever she caught their eye.
* A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
* A kitchen utensil used for turning food.
    Synonyms: fish slice, spatula
* (zoology) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
* (cricket) A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.

##### Derived terms

* cooking turner
* head-turner
* kitchen turner
* leaf-turner
* neck-turner
* page-turner
* pancake turner
* table-turner
* trick turner
* U-turner

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From German Turner (“gymnast”).

#### Noun

turner (plural turners)
* (sports) An acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

turner (plural turners)
* (historical) An old Scottish copper coin worth two pence, issued by King James VI.

### Further reading

* “turner”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “turner”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “turner”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “turner”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

### Anagrams

* return

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

turner m (plural turners, diminutive turnertje n)
* gymnast

## Latin
### Etymology

Latinised German Thurner (“trumpeter, bugler”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtur.ner/, [ˈt̪ʊrnɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtur.ner/, [ˈt̪urner]

### Noun

turner m (genitive turnerī); second declension
* bugler
* trumpeter

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

#### Synonyms

* (trumpeter): tubicinātor, tubocantius, tubicen

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

turner m (definite singular turneren, indefinite plural turnere, definite plural turnerne)
* gymnast

#### Related terms

* turn

### References

* “turner” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old French
### Verb

turner
* (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of torner

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rns, *-rnt are modified to rz, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* turnar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
* tuornar (Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin tornō, tornāre (“turn”), from tornus (“lathe”).

### Verb

turner
* (Puter) to return, go back, come back
* (Puter) to return, come back (home)