طورناویدا

Ottoman Turkish

طورناویدا

Alternative forms

• طورناوید (tornavid)

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of Italian tornavite (itself an archaic synonym of cacciavite (“screwdriver”)), from tornare (“to turn, return”) + vite (“screw”).

Noun

طورناویدا • (tornavida)

1. screwdriver, a hand tool used to turn a screw, thus driving it in or loosening it

Related terms

• ویده (vida, “screw”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tornavida
• → Armenian: թօռնօվիտա (tʻōṙnōvita) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “թօռնօվիտա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 83
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tornavida”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4877
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طورناویدا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 815
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “tornavid”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 346
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tornavida”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طورناوید”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1254