Torno, tornas, tornâre. Plini. To turne or worke with thewheele as turners do: to polish or make smooth.Idque ita tornauit, vt nihil effici possit rotundius. Ci. Versus malè tornati Hor.Verses ill made and polished.Tomare.To turne rounde. Plinius. Turbines ita librati perpenderunt, vt puero circumagente tornarentur.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
torno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [tornus], to turn in a lathe, to round off.I.Lit. (class.; syn. rotundo): idque ita tornavit (deus), ut nihil effici possit rotundius, Cic. Univ. 6: sphaeram, id. Rep. 1, 14, 22: hastas, Plin. 11, 39, 93, 227: lapis qui tornatur in vasa, id. 36, 22, 44, 159: turbines columnarum, id. 36, 13, 19, 90.—II.Transf., to turn, fashion, smooth (very rare): male tornati versus, Hor.A.P. 441: barbam, i.e.
to stroke
, Hier. Ep. 50, 2. — P. a. comp.: tornatioris eloquii, Aug. de Catechiz. 8.
