Noun: torre
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | torre |
| Plural f | torres |
Sample Sentences
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A torre oferece uma vista panorâmica da cidade. (The tower provides a panoramic view of the city.)
Nouns inflected like torre
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese torre (“tower”), from Latin turrem (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρσις (túrsis, “tower, bastion”).
2. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Italian, and Ladino torre and French tour. See: Latin Nouns '
turris', French Nouns '
tour'.
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