turbo

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.boʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ

Etymology 1

From turbine.

Etymology 2

From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.

Etymology 3

From the New Latin name of the genus Turbo.

Etymology

Derived from Latin turbo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈturbo]

Noun

turbo n

1. turbo

Further reading

• “turbo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “turbo”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995
• “turbo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈturbo/
• Rhymes: -urbo
• Hyphenation: tur‧bo

Noun

turbo (accusative singular turbon, plural turboj, accusative plural turbojn)

1. spinning top
   • 1916, L'Amerika Esperantisto, page 53:

     […] dum sur la pupitro antaŭ li estis videblaj diversaj kontrabandaj objektoj kaj malpermesitaj bataliloj, trovitaj ĉe maldiligentaj buboj; ekzemple duon-manĝitaj pomoj, blovpafiloj, turboj, muŝkaptiloj kaj tutaj legioj da batalpretaj vetkoketoi^[sic] el papero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1923, British Esperantist, page 9:

     Kelkaj knaboj ŝatas multe
     Brikojn, turbojn, kaj pafilojn.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology

From English turbo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈturbo/, [ˈt̪urbo̞]
• Rhymes: -urbo
• Hyphenation^(key): tur‧bo

Noun

turbo

1. turbo

Further reading

• “turbo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.bo/
• Rhymes: -urbo
• Hyphenation: tùr‧bo

Verb

turbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of turbare

Anagrams

• Bruto, bruto

Etymology

From turba.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.boː/, [ˈt̪ʊrboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.bo/, [ˈt̪urbo]

Noun

turbō m (genitive turbinis); third declension

2. tornado, whirlwind

   Synonyms: tempestās, procella

3. spinning top, wheel
4. spinning motion

Verb

turbō (present infinitive turbāre, perfect active turbāvī, supine turbātum); first conjugation

2. to disturb, unsettle, agitate, perturb

   Synonyms: perturbō, sollicitō, agitō, angō, concitō, disturbō, īnfestō, percieō, concieō, cieō, irrītō, stimulō, ēvertō, peragō, occīdō, agō, moveō, versō, ūrō

   Antonym: cōnsōlor

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.514–515:

     [...] avidī coniungere dextrās
     ārdēbant; sed rēs animōs incognita turbat.

     Ardently [Aeneas and Achates] desire to clasp the hands [of their comrades]; however, the strange happenings unsettle [their] spirits.

3. to upset

References

• “turbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “turbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "turbo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• turbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • to upset a person: alicuius mentem turbare, conturbare, perturbare
    
  • to cause universal disorder: omnia turbare ac miscere
    
  • to break the ranks: ordines turbare, perrumpere
    
  • to throw the rearguard into confusion: novissimos turbare
    
  • (ambiguous) a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
    
• “turbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “turbo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “turbo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Verb

turbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of turbar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuɾbo/ [ˈt̪uɾ.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -uɾbo
• Syllabification: tur‧bo

Etymology 1

Clipping of turbocompresor.

Etymology 2

Further reading

• “turbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Noun

turbo c

1. (often in compounds) turbo ((gas) turbine, especially in an internal combustion engine, sometimes of the entire engine or vehicle)
2. (colloquial, in compounds) turbo (something fast, powerful, or the like)

References

• turbo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• turbo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• turbo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)