torche
Appearance
See also: torché
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French torche, from Vulgar Latin *torca, from torqua, Classical Latin torques, from the verb torqueō (“to twist; to turn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]torche f (plural torches)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]torche
- inflection of torcher:
References
[edit]- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “torche”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- “torche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French torche, from Vulgar Latin *torca.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]torche (plural torches)
- A long candle
- A torch; a portable source of light
- (figurative) A ray of light
Descendants
[edit]- English: torch
References
[edit]- “torch(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]torche f (plural torches)
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *torca (“coiled object”), from Latin torqua, variant of torquis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]torche oblique singular, f (oblique plural torches, nominative singular torche, nominative plural torches)
Descendants
[edit]- French: torche, (etymology 2) torque
- → Middle Dutch: tortse
- Dutch: toorts
- → Middle English: torche, torghe, torge, torch
- English: torch
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tourse)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (torche, supplement)
- “torche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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