torre

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “torre”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ISBN 978-84-7753-949-0

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

From Old Occitan torre, from Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈto.rə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈto.re/
• Rhymes: -ore

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook or castle

• torreta

• “torre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “torre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “torre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “torre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Spanish torre

torre

1. tower.

From Old Portuguese torre, from Latin turris, turrem (“tower”), borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtore̝/

torre f (plural torres)

1. (architecture, military) stronghold, keep, tower house
2. (architecture) tower
3. (chess) rook

   Synonym: roque

• Datorre
• Torre

• “torre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “torre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “torre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “torre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “torre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.re/, [ˈt̪orːe]
• Hyphenation: tór‧re
• Rhymes: -orre

torre f (plural torri)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook, castle

• turricolato
• turrito

From Latin tollere, infinitive of tollō (“to lift up; to take away”), from Proto-Italic *tolnō, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥néh₂ti ~ *tl̥nh₂énti, from the root *telh₂- (“to bear, carry”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.re/, [ˈt̪ɔrːe]
• Hyphenation: tòr‧re
• Rhymes: -ɔrre

torre

1. (literary) Archaic form of togliere.

• retro, retrò, rétro
• terrò

Borrowed from Portuguese torre.

torre

1. tower (tall structure)
   • Pitiwoko, A Cidade in 2008, Ilda de Souza, Koenukunoe emo'u: A língua dos índios Kinikinau, page 187:

     […] , muyopeti mopo'e torre kemomoati wanuke aoeti muyopeti.

     […] , and it wasn’t one of those important churches, stone walls with towers pointing to the sky.

torrē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of torreō

From Old Occitan torre, from Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

From Latin turris, turrem.

torre f (oblique plural torres, nominative singular torre, nominative plural torres)

1. tower

• Catalan: torre
• Occitan: torre

From Old Portuguese torre (“tower”), from Latin turrem (“tower”), accusative singular of turris, from Ancient Greek τύρσις (túrsis, “tower, bastion”).

Cognate with Galician torre, Spanish torre, Catalan torre, Occitan torre, French tour and Italian torre.

• tôrre (obsolete)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʁɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʁi/
• Hyphenation: tor‧re

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

   A torre oferece uma vista panorâmica da cidade.

   The tower provides a panoramic view of the city.

2. (chess) rook
3. skyscraper

• (skyscraper): arranha-céu, arranha-céus

• → Kinikinao: torre

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ʁɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ʁi/

torre

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of torrar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of torrar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of torrar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of torrar

From Old Spanish torre, from Latin turrem, accusative singular of turris, from Ancient Greek τύρσις (túrsis, “tower, bastion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtore/, [ˈt̪ore]

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook
3. skyscraper (high building)

• (rook): roque
• (skyscraper): rascacielos

• → Basque: dorre
• → Ilocano: torre
• → Quechua: turri
• → Tagalog: tore

From Middle Dutch torre, from Old Dutch turn, from Old French tur, from Latin turris.

torre m

1. tower