turbo

From turbine.

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ

turbo (plural turbos)

1. Turbocharger.
   • 2008 February 17, Don Sherman, “More Power? Add Pressure”, in New York Times‎:

     Superchargers are generally heavier and more expensive than turbos […]

2. Turbojet.
3. Turbomolecular pump.
4. (video games) autofire

turbo (not comparable)

1. (said of a poker tournament) With rapidly-increasing blind levels.

   This is a turbo tournament: the blinds increase every 5 minutes! Level 1 = 150/300; level 2 = 200/400; etc.

2. (computing, video games) Causing or relating to increased speed.

   a turbo button on a controller; a PC equipped with a turbo mode

From the New Latin name of the genus Turbo.

turbo (plural turbos)

1. (malacology) turban shell

Latin turbo

• IPA^(key): [ˈturbo]

turbo n

1. turbo

• turbo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• turbo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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

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

1. spinning top

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

turbo

1. turbo

• turboahdettu
• turboahdin
• turbogeneraattori
• turbomoottori

turbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of turbare

• Bruto, bruto

From turba.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.boː/, [ˈtʊr.boː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.bo/

turbō m (genitive turbinis); third declension

1. tornado, whirlwind
2. crowd

Third declension.

• Catalan: terbolí
• Old Portuguese: torvon
  • Portuguese: trovão
  • Galician: trebón
• Old Spanish: turbón, torbelino, torbenino
  • Spanish: turbón, turbión, turbonada, torbellino, tolvanera

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

1. I disturb, unsettle
2. I upset

Old forms are:

• 3rd person singular indicative future perfect passive: turbassitur (= turbātum erit)

• 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, 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 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

turbo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of turbar

turbo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of turbar.