turris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan. Compare Τυρρηνός (Turrhēnós, “Etruscan”). Also compare the tribe Taurini.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ris/, [ˈt̪ʊrːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ris/, [ˈt̪urːis]

turris f (genitive turris); third declension

1. tower
2. (Late Latin, chess) a rook

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

• turrītus
• interturrium

• “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’s 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to build a tower: turrim excitare, erigere, facere
    
  • to raise towers: turres instituere, exstruere
    
• “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.