torso

From Italian torso, from Late Latin tursus, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of thyrse, thyrsus, and torse.

• (non-rhotic)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔː.səʊ̯/, [ˈtʰɔː.səʊ̯] ~ [ˈtʰɔː.sɵ̞ʊ̯]
• (rhotic)
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɹ.soʊ̯/, [ˈtʰoɹ.soʊ̯] ~ /ˈtɔɹ.sɔʊ̯/, [ˈtʰɔɹ.sɔʊ̯]

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)səʊ
• Hyphenation: tor‧so

torso (plural torsos or torsi)

2. The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.

   Synonyms: torse (obsolete), trunk

   Meronyms: abdomen, thorax

• → Welsh: torso

• torso on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Toors, stoor, rotos, ostro, toros, Oorts, roost, Sorto, roots

torso c (singular definite torsoen, plural indefinite torsoer)

1. torso, upper body

From Italian torso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtorso/, [ˈt̪o̞rs̠o̞]
• Rhymes: -orso
• Syllabification^(key): tor‧so
• Hyphenation^(key): tor‧so

torso

1. torso
2. (figurative) something unfinished or incomplete, especially an unfinished or incomplete work of art
3. (colloquial) loser

   Synonyms: epäonnistuja, kädetön, kämmäri

• “torso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• rosot, sorto

From Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of tirso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.so/, /ˈtɔr.so/^[1]
• Rhymes: -orso, -ɔrso
• Hyphenation: tór‧so, tòr‧so

torso m (plural torsi)

1. torso
2. a statue that is missing its head and limbs
3. (botany) the large stem of plants such as a cabbage

• torsolata

• → English: torso
  • → Welsh: torso
• → French: torse
  • → English: torse
• → Portuguese: torso
• → Spanish: torso

• ostro, sorto

• Rhymes: -oʁsu, -oɾsu
• Homophone: torço
• Hyphenation: tor‧so

Borrowed from Italian torso, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of tirso and possibly troço.

torso m (plural torsos)

1. (anatomy) torso

   Synonym: tronco

2. artistic work that represents the human torso, without head or limbs (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

From Latin torsus, via tortus, past participle of torquēre.

torso (feminine torsa, masculine plural torsos, feminine plural torsas)

1. twisted, crooked
2. Solomonic (said, in particular, of the column with a shaft carved in a spiral)

• “torso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “torso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Italian torso, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of tirso and possibly trozo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾso/ [ˈt̪oɾ.so]

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• Rhymes: -oɾso
• Syllabification: tor‧so

torso m (plural torsos)

1. (anatomy) torso

   Synonym: tronco

2. (art) a sculpture of it
3. (photography) a picture of a person, excluded legs

• “torso”, 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

• ortos, ostro, otros, rotos, toros

From English torso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔrsɔ/

torso m (plural torsoau)

1. torso

   Synonym: bongorff

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “torso”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies