torpedo (explosive device with its own propulsion and direction, designed to produce explosions on ships) · electric ray, torpedo · billet-doux (note delivered by an intermediary, usually in a public place and with the intention of romantic conquest)
çekim: çoğul torpedos
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin torpēdō. Compare torpor.
torpedo · projectile adapted for underwater use. · torpedo boat
çekim: çoğul torpedo-torpedo
köken: Borrowed from Dutch torpedo, from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish”), torpēdō (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from Latin torpeō (“to be stiff, numb, torpid; to be astounded; to be inactive”) and -dō (“noun suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”)
From Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish”), from torpēdō (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“to be stiff, numb, torpid; to be astounded; to be inactive”) and -dō (“noun suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”), see also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).