turbo

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.boʊ/

  • Audio (US):

    Duration: 2 seconds.0:02

    (file)

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɹ.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ

From turbine.

turbo (countable and uncountable, plural turbos)

1. (informal) A turbine.
3. Clipping of turbocharger. quotations ▼
   • 2008 February 17, Don Sherman, “More Power? Add Pressure”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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

4. Clipping of turbojet.
5. Clipping of turbomolecular pump.

• turbo broiler
• turbo mode

From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.

turbo (plural turbos)

1. (video games) Autofire.

   Controllers with turbo features are banned from most competitive tournaments.

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

3. (informal, nonstandard) Very, super, etc.; usually relating to a qualitative value (as opposed to quantitative).

   They act turbo wasted when they have more than a few beers in them.

turbo (third-person singular simple present turbos, present participle turboing, simple past and past participle turboed)

1. (video games) To autofire.

From the New Latin name of the genus Turbo.

turbo (plural turbos)

1. (malacology) A turban shell.

Derived from Latin turbo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈturbo]

turbo n

1. turbo

• “turbo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “turbo”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995
• “turbo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From Latin turbo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈturbo/
• Rhymes: -urbo
• Syllabification: tur‧bo

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

1. spinning top quotations ▼
   • 1916, L'Amerika Esperantisto, page 53:

     […] dum sur la pupitro antaŭ li estis videblaj diversaj kontrabandaj objektoj kaj malpermesitaj bataliloj, trovitaj ĉe maldiligentaj buboj; ekzemple duon-manĝitaj pomoj, blovpafiloj, turboj, muŝkaptiloj kaj tutaj legioj da batalpretaj vetkoketoi^[sic] el papero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1923, British Esperantist, page 9:

     Kelkaj knaboj ŝatas multe
     Brikojn, turbojn, kaj pafilojn.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “turbo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “turbo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

From English turbo.

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

turbo

1. turbo

• “turbo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.bo/
• Rhymes: -urbo
• Hyphenation: tùr‧bo

turbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of turbare

• Bruto, bruto

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊr.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtur.bo]

From turba + -ō (nominal suffix).

turbō m (genitive turbinis); third declension

2. tornado, whirlwind synonyms ▲

   Synonyms: tempestās, procella

3. spinning top, wheel
4. spinning motion

Third-declension noun.

From turba + -ō (verbal suffix).

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

2. to disturb, unsettle, agitate, perturb synonyms, antonym ▲quotations ▼

   Synonyms: perturbō, sollicitō, agitō, angō, concitō, disturbō, īnfestō, percieō, concieō, cieō, irrītō, stimulō, ēvertō, peragō, occīdō, agō, moveō, versō, ūrō

   Antonym: cōnsōlor

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.514–515:

     [...] avidī coniungere dextrās
     ārdēbant; sed rēs animōs incognita turbat.

     Ardently [Aeneas and Achates] desire to clasp the hands [of their comrades]; however, the strange happenings unsettle [their] spirits.

3. to upset

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to"). It is also attested as having a rare sigmatic future passive indicative form ("will have been"), which is not attested in the plural for any verb.

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “turbo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co. 6 phrases
• “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 and Roman 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 present indicative of turbar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuɾbo/ [ˈt̪uɾ.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -uɾbo
• Syllabification: tur‧bo

Clipping of turbocompresor.

turbo (invariable)
turbo (feminine turba, masculine plural turbos, feminine plural turbas)

1. turbo

turbo m (plural turbos)

1. turbo

turbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of turbar

• “turbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

turbo c

1. (often in compounds) turbo ((gas) turbine, especially in an internal combustion engine, sometimes of the entire engine or vehicle)
2. (colloquial, in compounds) turbo (something fast, powerful, or the like)

• turbojetmotor
• turbotorsk

• “turbo”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “turbo”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “turbo”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)