torre

See also: Torre, torré, tôrre, torrë, and tørre

Aragonese

Etymology

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

Noun

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “torre”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

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

Noun

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

Catalan

Torre de 8 amb folre

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈto.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈto.re]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ore

Noun

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

Derived terms

• Torre de Babel
• torre Eiffel
• de franc
• torreta

References

• “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.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish torre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtore/, [ˈt̪o.re]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾi/, [ˈt̪o.ɾi] (Ternateño)
• Hyphenation: to‧rre

Noun

torre

1. tower

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish torre.

Noun

torre

1. tower.

Galician

Torre de Hércules, by Camilo Díaz Baliño, 1933

Torre dos Andrade, Pontedeume

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtorɪ]

Noun

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

Derived terms

• Datorre
• Torre

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “torre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “torre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “torre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “torre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “torre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

torre

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

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

torre f (plural torri)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook, castle

Derived terms

• torracchione
• torraiolo
• Torrazzo
• torre d'avvistamento
• torre di comando
• torre di controllo
• torre di Pisa
• torre Eiffel
• torre pendente
• torreggiare
• torretta
• Torri Gemelle
• torriere
• torrigiano
• torrione

 

Related terms

• turricolato
• turrito

Etymology 2

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tòrre (syncopated; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	tòrre
auxiliary verb		avére	gerund		toglièndo
present participle		togliènte	past participle		tòlto
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	tòlgo	tògli	tòglie	togliàmo	togliéte	tòlgono
imperfect	togliévo	togliévi	togliéva	toglievàmo	toglievàte	togliévano
past historic	tòlsi	togliésti	tòlse	togliémmo	togliéste	tòlsero
future	torrò	torrài	torrà	torrémo	torréte	torrànno
conditional	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	torrèi	torrésti	torrèbbe, torrébbe	torrémmo	torréste	torrèbbero, torrébbero
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	tòlga	tòlga	tòlga	togliàmo	togliàte	tòlgano
imperfect	togliéssi	togliéssi	togliésse	togliéssimo	togliéste	togliéssero
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		tògli	tòlga	togliàmo	togliéte	tòlgano
negative imperative		non tòrre	non tòlga	non togliàmo	non togliéte	non tòlgano

Anagrams

• retro, retro-, retrò, rétro, terrò

Kinikinao

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese torre.

Noun

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.

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Verb

torrē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of torreō

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• terre

Etymology

From Old Norse þorri. Akin to Faroese torri and Icelandic þorri.

Noun

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

1. (historical, month) Thorri

References

• “torre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

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

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.re/

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Noun

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

   Synonym: tor

References

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 685.

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin turris, turrem.

Noun

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

1. tower

Descendants

• Occitan: torre

Portuguese

torre

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

• tôrre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʁi/ [ˈto.hi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʁi/ [ˈto.hi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʁi/ [ˈto.χi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʁe/ [ˈto.he]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʁɨ/

• Hyphenation: tor‧re

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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Noun

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

Descendants

• → Kinikinao: torre

Further reading

• “tôrre” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ʁi/ [ˈtɔ.hi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ʁi/ [ˈtɔ.hi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ʁi/ [ˈtɔ.χi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ʁe/ [ˈtɔ.he]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ʁɨ/

• Hyphenation: tor‧re

Verb

torre

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

   Synonym: roque

3. skyscraper (high building)

   Synonym: rascacielos

Derived terms

• Torre de Babel
• torre de control
• torre de gradiente
• torre de marfil
• torre de viento
• torre del homenaje
• torre Eiffel
• torrecilla
• torrero

 

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Verb

torre

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

Further reading

• “torre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Anagrams

• retro

Swedish

Adjective

torre

1. definite natural masculine singular of torr

West Flemish

Etymology

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

Noun

torre m

1. tower