torrens

See also: Torrens

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɔr.rẽːs]

Etymology 1

Present participle of torreō.

Participle

torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. scorching, burning, parching
  2. roasting, baking
Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative torrēns torrentēs torrentia
genitive torrentis torrentium
dative torrentī torrentibus
accusative torrentem torrēns torrentēs
torrentīs
torrentia
ablative torrente
torrentī1
torrentibus
vocative torrēns torrentēs torrentia

1When used purely as an adjective.

Etymology 2

This intransitive participle would be from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥seh₁yonts, from *ters- (dry) (whence transitive torreō).[1]

Participle

torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. burning, hot, inflamed
  2. (of streams) rushing, roaring, boiling, impetuous, rapid
Declension

Third-declension participle.

1When used purely as an adjective.

Etymology 3

Substantive form from torrēns (rushing).

Noun

torrēns m (genitive torrentis); third declension

  1. torrent (rushing stream)
  2. stream
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants
  • Catalan: torrent
  • Italian: torrente
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Piedmontese: torent
  • Sicilian: turrenti
  • Spanish: torrente

References

  • torrens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • torrens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "torrens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • torrens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “torreō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 624-5