torrente

Learned borrowing from Latin torrentem, accusative form of torrēns (“rushing”, “torrential”) (originally “scorching", then "powerful", "strengthful", "forceful"), present active participle of torreō (“I scorch, burn, parch”).

• IPA^(key): /toˈrɛnte/ [t̪oˈrɛn̪.t̪ɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
• IPA^(key): /toˈrente/ [t̪oˈren̪.t̪ɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: to‧rren‧te

torrente f (plural torrentes)

1. stream, creek, torrent

• Torrente

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “torrente”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (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), “torrente”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• “torrente”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “torrente” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Latin torrentem, accusative form of torrēns (“rushing”, “torrential”) (originally “scorching", then "powerful", "strengthful", "forceful"), present active participle of torreō (“to scorch, burn, parch”), from Proto-Italic *torzeō, causative of the Proto-Indo-European root *ters- (“dry”).

• IPA^(key): /torˈrɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: tor‧rèn‧te

torrente m (plural torrenti, diminutive torrentèllo, pejorative torrentàccio)

1. stream, creek, torrent

• torrentizio
• torrenziale

• → French: torrent
  • → English: torrent
  • → Romanian: torent

• torrente in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• torrente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

torrente

1. ablative singular of torrēns

Borrowed from Latin torrentem.

• Rhymes: -ẽti

• Hyphenation: tor‧ren‧te

torrente f (plural torrentes)

1. torrent (violent flow of liquid)
2. (figurative) torrent (large amount or stream of something)

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

Borrowed from Latin torrentem.

• IPA^(key): /toˈrente/ [t̪oˈrẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: to‧rren‧te

torrente m (plural torrentes)

1. torrent
2. stream
3. flood

• “torrente”, 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