torquatus

See also: Torquatus

Latin

Etymology

From torquis (“a twisted neck chain, necklace, collar”), from torqueō (“to turn, twist, bend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /torˈkʷaː.tus/, [t̪ɔrˈkʷäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /torˈkwa.tus/, [t̪orˈkwäːt̪us]

Adjective

torquātus (feminine torquāta, neuter torquātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. adorned with a neck chain or collar

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	torquātus	torquāta	torquātum		torquātī	torquātae	torquāta
Genitive	torquātī	torquātae	torquātī		torquātōrum	torquātārum	torquātōrum
Dative	torquātō		torquātō		torquātīs
Accusative	torquātum	torquātam	torquātum		torquātōs	torquātās	torquāta
Ablative	torquātō	torquātā	torquātō		torquātīs
Vocative	torquāte	torquāta	torquātum		torquātī	torquātae	torquāta

Derived terms

• Torquātus

Descendants

• English: torquated

References

• “torquatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “torquatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torquatus 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)
• torquatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “torquatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torquatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016