torquis

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɔr.kis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtɔɾ.kis]

torquis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of torcar

• torquēs m
• torqua f

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.kʷis/, [ˈt̪ɔrkʷɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.kwis/, [ˈt̪ɔrkwis]

torquis f (genitive torquis); third declension

1. chaplet
2. collar/necklace of twisted metal (often military), torque
3. ring
4. wreath

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

• torquātus

(See also torqua.)

• → Italian: torque
• → Old French: torque
  • French: torque
    • → English: torque

• “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’s 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.