torrente

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Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin torrentem, accusative form of torrēns (“rushing”, “torrential”) (originally “scorching", then "powerful", "strengthful", "forceful"), present active participle of torreō (“I scorch, burn, parch”).

Pronunciation

Noun

torrente f (plural torrentes)

  1. stream, creek, torrent

Derived terms

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “torrente”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “torrente” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torrentem, accusative form of torrēns (“rushing”, “torrential”) (originally “scorching", then "powerful", "strengthful", "forceful"), present active participle of torreō (“to scorch, burn, parch”), from Proto-Italic *torzeō, causative of the Proto-Indo-European root *ters- (“dry”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /torˈrɛn.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
  • Hyphenation: tor‧rèn‧te

Noun

torrente m (plural torrenti, diminutive torrentèllo, pejorative torrentàccio)

  1. stream, creek, torrent

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → French: torrent
    • → English: torrent
    • → Romanian: torent

Further reading

  • torrente in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • torrente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

torrente

  1. ablative singular of torrēns

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torrentem.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: tor‧ren‧te

Noun

torrente f (plural torrentes)

  1. torrent (violent flow of liquid)
  2. (figurative) torrent (large amount or stream of something)

Further reading

  • “torrente” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torrentem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toˈrente/
  • Rhymes: -ente
  • Syllabification: to‧rren‧te

Noun

torrente m (plural torrentes)

  1. torrent
  2. stream
  3. flood

Derived terms

Further reading

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