torrentiel

French

Etymology

From Latin torrēns (“rushing”, “torrential”), present active participle of torreō (“I scorch, burn, parch”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Italic *torzeō, causative of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European root *ters- (“dry”).
Surface analysis: torrent (“torrent”, “stream”) +‎ -iel (derivational suffix)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

torrentiel (feminine torrentielle, masculine plural torrentiels, feminine plural torrentielles)

1. torrential

Further reading

• “torrentiel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.