turris

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

turris f (genitive turris); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
nominative turris turrēs
genitive turris turrium
dative turrī turribus
accusative turrem
turrim		 turrēs
turrīs
ablative turre
turrī		 turribus
vocative turris turrēs

Descendants

References

  • 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, 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.

See also

Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculi, milites scaccorum (layout · text)
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rex regina turris episcopus eques pedes
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