tornasole
Italian
tornasole comune (sense 1.2)
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of torna (“to turn (archaic)”) + sole (“sun”). Compare Modern Italian girasole. The sense “litmus” originated by the substance originally being taken from said plant. Compare French tournesol and Spanish tornasol.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tor.naˈso.le/
- Rhymes: -ole
- Hyphenation: tor‧na‧só‧le
Noun
tornasole m (countable and uncountable, plural tornasoli)
- (countable)
- (archaic, dialectal) sunflower
- Synonym: girasole
- turnsole (Chrozophora tinctoria)
- (archaic, dialectal) sunflower
- (uncountable, chemistry) litmus (substance)
- Synonym: (rare) laccamuffa
- cartina tornasole ― litmus paper
Further reading
- (sense 1.2):
Chrozophora tinctoria on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it - (sense 2): tornasole on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- tornasole in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- tornasole in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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