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English
Etymology
From Latin torcular.
Noun
torcular (plural torculars)
- (archaic) A tourniquet.
Derived terms
Latin
Noun
torcular n (genitive torculāris); third declension
- 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)
- wine cellar (or room for pressing wine)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Descendants
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