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

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

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

From Old Catalan torre~torra, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis).

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

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• Rhymes: -ore

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook or castle
3. (castells) a castell consisting of two castellers per level of the tronc
4. (historical) an agricultural estate on the outskirts of a town farmed by a tenant farmer
5. villa

• Torre de Babel
• torre Eiffel
• de franc
• 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, 2023
• “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 Galician and Old Portuguese torre, from Latin turris, turrem (“tower”), borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtorɪ]

torre f (plural torres)

1. (architecture, military) stronghold, keep, tower house
2. (architecture) tower
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:

     prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

     they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower

3. (chess) rook

   Synonym: roque

• Datorre
• Torre

• “torre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “torre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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 turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan.

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

torre f (plural torri)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook, castle

• turricolato
• turrito

From Latin 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/
• Rhymes: -ɔrre
• Hyphenation: tòr‧re

tòrre (first-person singular present tòlgo, first-person singular past historic tòlsi, past participle tòlto, first-person singular imperfect togliévo, auxiliary avére) (literary, archaic)

1. (literary, archaic) Alternative form of togliere

• retro, 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 Norse þorri. Akin to Faroese torri and Icelandic þorri.

torre m (definite singular torren, indefinite plural torrar, definite plural torrane)

1. (historical, month) Thorri

• “torre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• orter, retor, retro, retro-, roret, roter, torer, troer

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.re/

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torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

   Synonym: tor

From Latin turris, turrem.

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

1. tower

• Occitan: torre

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

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

• tôrre (obsolete)

• 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

   Synonyms: arranha-céu, arranha-céus

• → Kinikinao: torre

torre

1. inflection of torrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtore/ [ˈt̪o.re]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification: to‧rre

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

   Synonym: roque

3. skyscraper (high building)

   Synonym: rascacielos

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

torre

1. inflection of torrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “torre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• retro

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

torre m

1. tower