torre
Portuguese
/ˈto.ʁɨ/, /ˈto.ʁi/, /ˈtɔ.ʁɨ/, /ˈtɔ.ʁi/
noun
Definitions
- tower
- (chess) rook
- skyscraper
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese torre (tower) inherited from Latin turrem (tower) derived from Ancient Greek τύρσις (tower, bastion).
Origin
Ancient Greek
τύρσις
Gloss
tower, bastion
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
楼, 塔
Emoji
🗼
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tower English
- turrem Latin
- turris Latin
- turris, turrem Latin
- Tour German
- Turm German
- torraiolo Italian
- torrazzo Italian
- torre Italian
- torreggiare Italian
- torrione Italian
- tour Dutch, Flemish
- tour French
- tourelle French
- touriste French
- тур Russian
- тура Russian
- torre Spanish, Castilian
- torreón Spanish, Castilian
- τύρσις Ancient Greek
- tur Norwegian Bokmål
- tur Swedish
- tur Norwegian Nynorsk
- tur Danish
- *torn Old French
- tor Old French
- tour Old French
- turo Esperanto
- Torralba Catalan, Valencian
- torre Catalan, Valencian
- torreta Catalan, Valencian
- torre Galician
- tur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tură Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- turrë Albanian
- torre Old Portuguese
- *türmä Proto-Turkic
- torre Occitan
- torre Old Occitan
- turn Old Frisian
- torre Old Spanish
- torre Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl