torrens
See also: Torrens
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtor.rens/, [ˈt̪ɔrːẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtor.rens/, [ˈt̪ɔrːens]
Etymology 1 edit
Present participle of torreō.
Participle edit
torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension edit
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | 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 edit
This intransitive participle would be from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥seh₁yonts, from *ters- (“dry”) (whence transitive torreō).
Participle edit
torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension edit
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | 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 3 edit
Substantive form from torrēns (“rushing”).
Noun edit
torrēns m (genitive torrentis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | torrēns | torrentēs |
Genitive | torrentis | torrentium |
Dative | torrentī | torrentibus |
Accusative | torrentem | torrentēs torrentīs |
Ablative | torrente | torrentibus |
Vocative | torrēns | torrentēs |
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: torrent
- → Italian: torrente
- → Old Galician-Portuguese:
- → Piedmontese: torent
- Sicilian: turrenti
- → Spanish: torrente
References edit
- “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.