torrente
See also: Torrente
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed 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
- IPA(key): /toˈrɛnte̝/, /toˈrente̝/
Noun
torrente f (plural torrentes)
- stream, creek, torrent
Derived terms
- Torrente
References
- “torrente” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “torrente” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Further reading
- “torrente” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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)
- stream, creek, torrent
Derived terms
- torrentizio
- torrenziale
Descendants
- → French: torrent
- → English: torrent
- → Romanian: torent
Latin
Noun
torrente
- ablative singular of torrēns
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin torrentem.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /toˈʁẽ.t͡ʃi/ [toˈhẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /toˈʁẽ.t͡ʃi/ [toˈχẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /toˈʁẽ.te/ [toˈhẽ.te]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈʁẽ.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: tor‧ren‧te
Noun
torrente f (plural torrentes)
- torrent (violent flow of liquid)
- (figurative) torrent (large amount or stream of something)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin torrens, torrentem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toˈrente/ [t̪oˈrẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: to‧rren‧te
Noun
torrente m (plural torrentes)
- torrent
- stream
- flood
Derived terms
- torrente sanguíneo
Related terms
- torrencial
Further reading
- “torrente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014