"turris" meaning in Latin

See turris in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈtur.ris/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈt̪ʊrːɪs̠] [Classical-Latin], /ˈtur.ris/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈt̪urːis] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
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. Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|τύρρις}} Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), {{q|Hesychius}} (Hesychius), {{der|la|qfa-sub|-}} substrate Head templates: {{la-noun|turris<3.acc-im-occ-em.abl-i-e>|g=f}} turris f (genitive turris); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|turris<3.acc-im-occ-em.abl-i-e>}} Forms: turris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], turris [nominative, singular], turrēs [nominative, plural], turris [genitive, singular], turrium [genitive, plural], turrī [dative, singular], turribus [dative, plural], turrim [accusative, singular], turrem [accusative, singular], turrēs [accusative, plural], turrīs [accusative, plural], turrī [ablative, singular], turre [ablative, singular], turribus [ablative, plural], turris [singular, vocative], turrēs [plural, vocative]
  1. 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 Tags: declension-3, feminine
    Sense id: en-turris-la-noun-0PupIB6j
  2. (Late Latin, chess) a rook Tags: Late-Latin, declension-3, feminine Categories (topical): Chess, Chess
    Sense id: en-turris-la-noun-mG3KgfrO Disambiguation of Chess: 8 92 Categories (other): Late Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86 Topics: board-games, chess, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: turrītus, interturrium Related terms: rēx, rēgīna, sagittifer, eques, pedes

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "turrītus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "interturrium"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Eastern Romance"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "turon"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: turon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: turon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "turn"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: turn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: turn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Italic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "egl",
            "2": "tårr"
          },
          "expansion": "Emilian: tårr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Emilian: tårr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lmo",
            "2": "torr"
          },
          "expansion": "Lombard: torr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Lombard: torr [tor, tur]"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Dalmatian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "turri"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: turri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: turri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mt",
            "2": "torri",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Maltese: torri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Maltese: torri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: tor (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frm",
            "2": "tour"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle French: tour",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle French: tour"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "tour"
          },
          "expansion": "French: tour",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: tour (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "wa",
            "2": "tour"
          },
          "expansion": "Walloon: tour",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Walloon: tour"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Occitan: torre\nOccitan: torre",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Occitan: torre\nOccitan: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Rhaeto-Romance"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "tur",
            "4": "tuor"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: tor, tur, tuor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: tor, tur, tuor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "tore"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: tor, tore",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: tor, tore"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "West Iberian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-oan"
          },
          "expansion": "Navarro-Aragonese:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Navarro-Aragonese:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "an",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Aragonese: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aragonese: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-ole"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Leonese:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Leonese:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: torre (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "osp",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Spanish: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Spanish: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: torre (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Celtic:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Celtic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Brythonic:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Brythonic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "kw",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Cornish: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Cornish: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "owl",
            "2": "*tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Welsh: *tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Welsh: *tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "tŵr"
          },
          "expansion": "Welsh: tŵr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Welsh: tŵr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sga"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Irish:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Irish:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ang",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "torr",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old English: tor, torr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old English: tor, torr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "tower"
          },
          "expansion": "English: tor, tower",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: tor, tower"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "turrë",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Albanian: turrë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Albanian: turrë"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "τύρρις"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Hesychius"
      },
      "expansion": "(Hesychius)",
      "name": "q"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "qfa-sub",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "substrate",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan. Compare Τυρρηνός (Turrhēnós, “Etruscan”). Also compare the tribe Taurini.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "turris<3.acc-im-occ-em.abl-i-e>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "turris f (genitive turris); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "turris<3.acc-im-occ-em.abl-i-e>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "rēx"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "rēgīna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sagittifer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "eques"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pedes"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Towers, partially built, rise up no [higher], ….\n(Literally: [construction] having been begun.)",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.86",
          "text": "Nōn coeptae adsurgunt turrēs, …."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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"
      ],
      "id": "en-turris-la-noun-0PupIB6j",
      "links": [
        [
          "tower",
          "tower"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "high",
          "high"
        ],
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Late Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Chess",
          "orig": "la:Chess",
          "parents": [
            "Board games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Chess",
          "orig": "la:Chess",
          "parents": [
            "Board games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a rook"
      ],
      "id": "en-turris-la-noun-mG3KgfrO",
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "rook",
          "rook"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Late Latin, chess) a rook"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Late-Latin",
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtur.ris/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪ʊrːɪs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtur.ris/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪urːis]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "turris"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
    "Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "Latin terms derived from substrate languages",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "la:Chess"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "turrītus"
    },
    {
      "word": "interturrium"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Eastern Romance"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "turon"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: turon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: turon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "turn"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: turn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: turn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Italic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "egl",
            "2": "tårr"
          },
          "expansion": "Emilian: tårr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Emilian: tårr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lmo",
            "2": "torr"
          },
          "expansion": "Lombard: torr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Lombard: torr [tor, tur]"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Dalmatian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "turri"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: turri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: turri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mt",
            "2": "torri",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Maltese: torri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Maltese: torri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: tor (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frm",
            "2": "tour"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle French: tour",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle French: tour"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "tour"
          },
          "expansion": "French: tour",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: tour (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "wa",
            "2": "tour"
          },
          "expansion": "Walloon: tour",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Walloon: tour"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Occitan: torre\nOccitan: torre",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Occitan: torre\nOccitan: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Rhaeto-Romance"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "tur",
            "4": "tuor"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: tor, tur, tuor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: tor, tur, tuor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "tore"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: tor, tore",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: tor, tore"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "West Iberian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-oan"
          },
          "expansion": "Navarro-Aragonese:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Navarro-Aragonese:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "an",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Aragonese: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aragonese: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-ole"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Leonese:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Leonese:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: torre (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "osp",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Spanish: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Spanish: torre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "torre"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: torre",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: torre (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Celtic:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Celtic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Brythonic:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Brythonic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "kw",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Cornish: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Cornish: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "owl",
            "2": "*tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Welsh: *tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Welsh: *tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "tŵr"
          },
          "expansion": "Welsh: tŵr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Welsh: tŵr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sga"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Irish:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Irish:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ang",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "torr",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old English: tor, torr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old English: tor, torr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "tor",
            "3": "tower"
          },
          "expansion": "English: tor, tower",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: tor, tower"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "turrë",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Albanian: turrë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Albanian: turrë"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "τύρρις"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Hesychius"
      },
      "expansion": "(Hesychius)",
      "name": "q"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "qfa-sub",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "substrate",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan. Compare Τυρρηνός (Turrhēnós, “Etruscan”). Also compare the tribe Taurini.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turrēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "turris<3.acc-im-occ-em.abl-i-e>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "turris f (genitive turris); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "turris<3.acc-im-occ-em.abl-i-e>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "rēx"
    },
    {
      "word": "rēgīna"
    },
    {
      "word": "sagittifer"
    },
    {
      "word": "eques"
    },
    {
      "word": "pedes"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Towers, partially built, rise up no [higher], ….\n(Literally: [construction] having been begun.)",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.86",
          "text": "Nōn coeptae adsurgunt turrēs, …."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tower",
          "tower"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "high",
          "high"
        ],
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Late Latin",
        "la:Chess"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a rook"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "rook",
          "rook"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Late Latin, chess) a rook"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Late-Latin",
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtur.ris/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪ʊrːɪs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtur.ris/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪urːis]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "turris"
}

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