torquis

== Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɔr.kis] IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɔɾ.kis] === Verb === torquis second-person singular present subjunctive of torcar == Latin == === Alternative forms === torquēs m torqua f === Etymology === From the root of torqueō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɔr.kʷɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɔr.kʷis] === 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 ==== torquātus ==== Descendants ==== (See also torqua.) → Italian: torque → Old French: torque French: torque → English: torque Proto-Brythonic: *torx Cornish: torgh Welsh: torch === 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, 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.