turbine

turbine
[19] Latin turbō denoted ‘whirl’, ‘whirling thing’, or ‘whirlwind’, and also ‘spinning-top’ (it was related to turba ‘disturbance, crowd’, source of English disturb, trouble, etc). From it around 1824 was coined French turbine, applied originally to a revolving wheel on an axis, driven by water-pressure. It was borrowed into English in the early 1840s. => DISTURB, TROUBLE
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   Although now normally a smooth-running machine, its name ultimately derives from Latin turbo, genitive turbinis, 'whirlwind,' from the verb turbare, 'to throw into confusion' (as in English disturb, perturb, etc.). The reference is to the whirling and rushing of early water and steam turbines.

The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins. 2013.

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