Torquatus

== Latin == === Etymology === From torquātus (“adorned with a collar”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɔrˈkʷaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [torˈkʷaː.tus] === Proper noun === Torquātus m sg (genitive Torquātī); second declension A Roman cognomen — famously held by: Titus Manlius Torquatus, a Roman dictator ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== Torquātiānus ==== Descendants ==== Italian: Torquato === References === “Torquatus2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Torquatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.