torre

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “torre”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

Chess pieces in Asturian · pieces d'axedrez (layout · text)
rei	dama, reina	torre	alfil	caballu	peón

Inherited from Old Catalan torre~torra, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈto.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈto.re]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ore

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook or castle
3. (castells) a castell consisting of two castellers per level of the tronc
4. (historical) an agricultural estate on the outskirts of a town farmed by a tenant farmer
5. villa

• Torre de Babel
• torre Eiffel
• de franc
• torreta

Chess pieces in Catalan · peces d'escacs (layout · text)
rei	reina, dama	torre	alfil	cavall	peó

• “torre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “torre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “torre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “torre”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Spanish torre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtore/, [ˈt̪o.re]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾi/, [ˈt̪o.ɾi] (Ternateño)
• Hyphenation: to‧rre

torre

1. tower

From Spanish torre.

torre

1. tower.

From Old Galician-Portuguese torre, from Latin turris, turrem (“tower”), borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtorɪ]

torre f (plural torres)

1. (architecture, military) stronghold, keep, tower house
2. (architecture) tower
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:

     prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

     they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower

3. (chess) rook

   Synonym: roque

• Datorre
• Torre

Chess pieces in Galician · pezas de xadrez (layout · text)
rei	dama, raíña	torre, roque	alfil	cabalo	peón

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “torre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “torre”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “torre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “torre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “torre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

torre

1. inflection of torrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.re/^[1]
• Homophone: Torre
• Rhymes: -orre
• Hyphenation: tór‧re

torre f (plural torri)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

• turricolato
• turrito

Chess pieces in Italian · pezzi degli scacchi (layout · text)
re	regina, donna	torre	alfiere	cavallo	pedone

• torre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin tollō (“to lift up; to take away”), from Proto-Italic *tolnō, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥néh₂ti ~ *tl̥nh₂énti, from the root *telh₂- (“to bear, carry”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.re/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔrre
• Hyphenation: tòr‧re

tòrre (first-person singular present tòlgo, first-person singular past historic tòlsi, past participle tòlto, first-person singular imperfect togliévo, auxiliary avére) (archaic, poetic)

1. alternative form of togliere

In modern usage, chiefly spelled tôrre or tòrre to distinguish it from the more common tórre (“tower”).

Including lesser-used forms:

• togliere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• tòrre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• retro, retro-, retrò, rétro, terrò

Borrowed from Portuguese torre.

torre

1. tower (tall structure)
   • Pitiwoko, A Cidade in 2008, Ilda de Souza, Koenukunoe emo'u: A língua dos índios Kinikinau, page 187:

     […] , muyopeti mopo'e torre kemomoati wanuke aoeti muyopeti.

     […] , and it wasn’t one of those important churches, stone walls with towers pointing to the sky.

Inherited from Old Spanish torre, inherited from Latin turrem, turris, borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis, “tower, bastion”).

torre f (Hebrew spelling טורי)^[1]

1. tower
   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 48:

     Es mas tadre ke fue derrokada la muraya ke eskondia lo bacho de la torre i eya aparisyo suvyendo en el syelo komo una fletcha.

     Later, the wall that was hiding the tower’s low one was destroyed and the tower appeared sloping in the firmament like an arrow.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔr.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔr.re]

torrē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of torreō

• terre

From Old Norse þorri. Akin to Faroese torri and Icelandic þorri.

torre m (definite singular torren, indefinite plural torrar, definite plural torrane)

1. (historical, month) Thorri

• “torre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• orter, retor, retro, retro-, roret, roter, torer, troer

From Old Occitan torre, from Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.re/

• Audio (Languedoc):

  (file)

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

   Synonym: tor

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[2], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 685

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.re/, [ˈtorˠ.rˠe]

torre

1. dative singular of torr

Inherited from Latin turrem (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρσις (túrsis, “tower, bastion”).

Cognate with Old French tor and Old Spanish torre.

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
   • c. 1350, Kevin M. Parker, editor, Historia Troyana:

     Et basteçerõ moy bem os muros et as torres de armas et de cõpañas em tal maneyra que acõmo quer que viesem, nõ se decatasem de trayçom

     And they plentifully provided the walls and towers of weapons and troops, in such a manner that no matter how they would come, they wouldn't notice the treason

   • 1395, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 532:

     Et por ende nóslos deuemos destroýr et cofonder per força, et deytalos fora da terra, et desherdalos, et achãar as torres et os muros, et queymar et derribar os paaços et as casas, et abaixar a çidade toda, ca assý noslo an prometudo os dioses, et outorgarõ, et nos segurarõ ende ben.

     And so we must destroy them, and to forcibly ruin them, and to throw them out of the land, and to disinherit them, and raze the towers and the walls, and burn and topple the palaces and the houses, and to humble the whole city, because that was promised to us by the gods, and they granted this to us, and they assured us fortune on this

• Galician: torre
• Portuguese: torre (see there for further descendants)

From Latin turris, turrem.

torre f (oblique plural torres, nominative singular torre, nominative plural torres)

1. tower

• Occitan: torre

Inherited from Latin turrem (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρσις (túrsis, “tower, bastion”).

Cognate with Old French tor and Old Galician-Portuguese torre.

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
   • 1454 – 1500, Fray Alonso de San Cristóbal, Libro de Vegecio de la caballería fol. 114r, (ed. by María Teresa Herrera and María Nieves Sánchez, 2000, Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca):

     Por muchos enxenplos se declara que muchas vezes los enemigos mueren a la entrada que avian tomado la çibdad, lo qual acaesçe sin dubda si los que guardan los muros retovieren los adarves o torres o ovieren ocupado algunos lugares altos. Entonçe gente de qualquier hedad & aun las mugeres fieren a sus enemigos desde las finiestras & de los tejados con piedras & con otras maneras de dardos.

     In many examples it is stated that many times enemies die at the entrance, having taken the city, which no doubt occurs if those guarding the wall manage to retain the wall walks or towers or if they occupy some high places. Then, people of any age, and even women, wound the enemy from the windows and roofs with stones and any other kinds of projectiles.

• Ladino: torre, טורי
• Spanish: torre (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese torre (“tower”), from Latin turrem (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρσις (túrsis, “tower, bastion”).

Cognate with Galician, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Italian, and Ladino torre and French tour.

• tôrre (pre-reform spelling)

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: tor‧re

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower

   A torre oferece uma vista panorâmica da cidade. ― The tower provides a panoramic view of the city.

2. (chess) rook
3. skyscraper

   Synonyms: arranha-céu, arranha-céus

• → Kinikinao: torre

Chess pieces in Portuguese · peças de xadrez (layout · text)
rei	rainha, dama	torre	bispo	cavalo	peão

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: tor‧re

torre

1. inflection of torrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “torre”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “torre”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “torre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “torre”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈtore/ [ˈt̪o.re]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification: to‧rre

Inherited from Old Spanish torre, inherited from Latin turrem, turris, borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis, “tower, bastion”).

torre f (plural torres)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

   Synonym: roque

3. skyscraper (high building)

   Synonym: rascacielos

• → Basque: dorre
• → Ilocano: torre
• → Quechua: turri
• → Tagalog: tore

torre

1. inflection of torrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Chess pieces in Spanish · piezas de ajedrez (layout · text)
rey	dama, reina	torre, roque	alfil	caballo	peón

• “torre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• retro

torre

1. definite natural masculine singular of torr

From Middle Dutch torre, from Old Dutch turn, from Old French tur, from Latin turris.

torre m

1. tower