noun, feminine/tuɾˈbina/plural: turbinas
turbine
Borrowed from French turbine, itself borrowed from Latin turbinem (“circular movement, top, reel, spindle”). Compare turbión, an inherited doublet through a Vulgar Latin variant. Cf. also torbellino.
/tuɾˈbina/
turbine
Borrowed from French turbine, itself borrowed from Latin turbinem (“circular movement, top, reel, spindle”). Compare turbión, an inherited doublet through a Vulgar Latin variant. Cf. also torbellino.