noun, feminine/tuʁ/plural: tours
tower; rook; apartment building
“La tour de Pise est penchée.” — The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
Inherited from Old French tor, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
/tuʁ/
tower; rook; apartment building
“La tour de Pise est penchée.” — The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
Inherited from Old French tor, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
turn, circumference; go, turn; walk, stroll; round, stage (of a competition); trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick)
“L'univers, pour lui, n'excédait pas le tour soyeux de son jupon; et il se reprochait de ne pas l'aimer, il avait envie de la revoir; il s'en revenait vite, montait l'escalier; le coeur battant.”
Deverbal Old French torner, tourner. Related to Etymology 3.
lathe; potter’s wheel
From Latin tornus. Related to Etymology 2.