torrens

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɔr.rẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɔr.rens] === Etymology 1 === Present participle of torreō. ==== Participle ==== torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle scorching, burning, parching roasting, baking ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. === Etymology 2 === Probably from the participle of Proto-Italic *torz-ē-, itself from a stative verb formed to Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”) (whence transitive torreō). The same stative formation may be paralleled in Old High German dorrēn, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥s-eh₁(ye)-ti. ==== Participle ==== torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle burning, hot, inflamed (of streams) rushing, roaring, boiling, impetuous, rapid ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. === Etymology 3 === Substantive form from torrēns (“rushing”). ==== Noun ==== torrēns m (genitive torrentis); third declension torrent (rushing stream) stream ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ===== Descendants ===== === References === “torrens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “torrens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "torrens", 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) “torrens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.