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

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈto.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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, 2024
• “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-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
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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.

torre

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

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.reː/, [ˈt̪ɔrːeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.re/, [ˈt̪ɔrːe]

torrē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of torreō

• terre

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 Galician-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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: tor‧re

torre

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

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

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

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