turris

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan. Compare Τυρρηνός (Turrhēnós, “Etruscan”). Also compare the tribe Taurini. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʊr.rɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtur.ris] === Noun === turris f (genitive turris); third declension tower, especially a military tower for siege, advanced to the walls on wheels, or one on a wall for defense; loosely used of a high building (Late Latin, chess) rook ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e). ==== Derived terms ==== turrītus interturrium ==== Descendants ==== === See also === === References === === Further reading === “turris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “turris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "turris", 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) “turris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “turris”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “turris”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “turris”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough, 1902.