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

Chess pieces in Asturian · pieces d'axedrez (layout · text)
rei	dama, reina	torre	alfil	caballu	peón

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

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

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

Chess pieces in Catalan · peces d'escacs (layout · text)
rei	reina, dama	torre	alfil	cavall	peó

• “torre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “torre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

Inherited from Spanish torre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtore/, [ˈt̪o.re]

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

torre

1. tower

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

Chess pieces in Galician · pezas de xadrez (layout · text)
rei	dama, raíña	torre, roque	alfil	cabalo	peón

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

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/^[1]
• Homophone: Torre
• Rhymes: -orre
• Hyphenation: tór‧re

torre f (plural torri)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

• turricolato
• turrito

Chess pieces in Italian · pezzi degli scacchi (layout · text)
re	regina, donna	torre	alfiere	cavallo	pedone

• torre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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/^[1]
• 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) (archaic, poetic)

1. alternative form of togliere

In modern usage, chiefly spelled tôrre or tòrre to distinguish it from the more common tórre (“tower”).

• togliere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• tòrre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• 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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔr.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɔr.re]

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/

• Audio (Languedoc):

  (file)

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

   Synonym: tor

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.re/, [ˈtorˠ.rˠe]

torre

1. dative singular of torr

From Latin turris, turrem.

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

1. tower

• Occitan: torre

Inherited 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 (pre-reform spelling)

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

  (file)

• 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

Chess pieces in Portuguese · peças de xadrez (layout · text)
rei	rainha, dama	torre	bispo	cavalo	peão

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

• “torre”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “torre”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “torre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “torre”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

• 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

Chess pieces in Spanish · piezas de ajedrez (layout · text)
rey	dama, reina	torre, roque	alfil	caballo	peón

• “torre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• retro

torre

1. definite natural masculine singular of torr

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

torre m

1. tower