retourner
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to turn over, turn upside-down; (in cooking) to turn
- (transitive) to toss (salad), turn over (earth, soil)
- (transitive) to return, send back (an object)
- (intransitive) to return, go back (to/from a place)
- (intransitive) to return, revert (à to) (a state etc)
- (pronominal) to turn over; to overturn, capsize
- (pronominal) to turn round (turn one's head)
- (pronominal) to be reversed, be turned round (of a situation etc.)
- (pronominal) to get organised
Etymology
Inherited from Old French retorner affix from French tourner (turn).
Origin
French
tourner
Gloss
turn
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- turn English
- turno Italian
- retourneren Dutch, Flemish
- détourner French
- entourner French
- retournable French
- retournement French
- tournage French
- tournailler French
- tourner French
- tourneur French
- tournevis French
- tournis French
- tournure French
- турник Russian
- turnar Spanish, Castilian
- returnere Norwegian Bokmål
- returnere Danish
- retorner Old French
- torni Esperanto
- turni Esperanto
- returna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tourner Middle French
- tounen Haitian, Haitian Creole
- retournin Louisiana Creole French
- tournin Louisiana Creole French