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English word tourniquet comes from Ancient Greek τόρνος, and later Latin tornus (A potter's wheel.. A turner's wheel, lathe.)
τόρνος (Ancient Greek)
tornus (Latin)
A potter's wheel.. A turner's wheel, lathe.
torno (Latin)
I round off, make round (by turning on a lathe).. I turn.
tourner (Old French)
tourner (French)
(computing) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.). To film, to shoot a film. To lathe. To stir (e.g. ingredients). To tour, to go on tour. To turn (left, right etc.).
tourner (Middle French)
(intransitive) to return (to go back). (intransitive) to turn (to rotate). (tourner a) to turn into; to change into.
tourniquet (French)
Revolving door or turnstile. Unpowered carousel (playground).
tourniquet (English)
A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.. A turnstile.. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.