torcular

== English == === Etymology === From Latin torcular. === Noun === torcular (plural torculars) (archaic) A tourniquet. ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From torculus +‎ -ar, from torqueō. === Noun === torcular n (genitive torculāris); third declension press (for wine or oil) wine cellar (or room for pressing wine) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem). ==== Descendants ==== Vulgar Latin: *troculārem Old Catalan: trullar Spanish: trujal → Italian: torcolare === 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