torcular

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English

Etymology

Latin torcular

Noun

torcular (plural torculars)

  1. (archaic) A tourniquet.

Derived terms

Latin

Noun

torcular n (genitive torculāris); third declension

  1. press (for wine or oil)
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.3.10:
      et implēbuntur horrea tua saturitāte et vīnō torculāria redundābunt
      And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
  2. wine cellar (or room for pressing wine)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative torcular torculāria
Genitive torculāris torculārium
Dative torculārī torculāribus
Accusative torcular torculāria
Ablative torculārī torculāribus
Vocative torcular torculāria

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *troculārem
  • → Italian: torcolare

References

  • “torcular”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • torcular in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “torcular”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “torcular”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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