torc

• IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)k/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
• Homophones: torq, torque; talk (non-rhotic)

torc (plural torcs)

1. Alternative spelling of torque (“necklace”)

• -cort, -cort-, COTR, Cort, Octr, Octr., ROTC, Troc, cort-, ctor

• torcu

From Vulgar Latin *torcō, from Latin torqueō. Compare Romanian toarce, torc.

torc first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative tortsi, past participle torse)

1. to spin (yarn)

• turtseri
• tors
• stãcor
• turte

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɔɾˠk/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠʌɾˠk/

From Old Irish torc¹, from Proto-Celtic *tworkos (“boar”).

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. wild boar (Sus scrofa)
2. portly, corpulent, person; man of substance

   Synonym: torclach

From Old Irish torc², from Latin torquis.

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. torque (braided necklace or collar)

Borrowed from English torque, from Latin torqueō (“I twist”).

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. (physics) torque

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “torc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 torc (‘collar, torque’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /tork/

From Proto-Celtic *tworkos (“boar”) (compare Welsh twrch).

torc m

1. boar
2. chieftain, hero

• torcda

• Irish: torc
• Scottish Gaelic: torc

Borrowed from Latin torquis.

torc m

1. torque (necklace)

• Irish: torc

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 torc (‘collar, torque’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

torc

1. inflection of toarce:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

From Old Irish torc¹, from Proto-Celtic *tworkos (“boar”).

torc m (genitive singular tuirc, plural tuirc)

1. boar

• torc allaidh
• torc fiadhaich

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language