torculo
Latin
Etymology
From torculum + -ō. Attested from the writings of Venantius Fortunatus.
Verb
torculō (present infinitive torculāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem (Late Latin)
- to press
Conjugation
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: torchiare
- North Italian:
- Venetian: torcołar
- Borrowings:
- → Italian: torcolare
- Vulgar Latin:
- *extorculāre~extroculāre (see there for further descendants)
- *troculāre (< *troculum, variant of torculum)
- Catalan: trullar
- Franco-Provençal: troiller, trouiller
- Old French: truilieir, troiller, truillier (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: trolhar
References
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “estrujar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 815
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tŏrcŭlum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 43
Further reading
- “torculo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- torculo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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