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Pronunciation
Verb
torquis
- second-person singular present subjunctive of torcar
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
torquis f (genitive torquis); third declension
- chaplet
- collar/necklace of twisted metal (often military), torque
- ring
- wreath
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
Derived terms
Descendants
(See also torqua.)
References
- “torquis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “torquis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- torquis 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)
- torquis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.