Where does “torse” come from?
torse (Italian) comes from Italian torcere, from Vulgar Latin torcere, from Latin torqueō, from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- — to turn, spin.
torse (Italian): third-person singular past historic of torcere
Definitions
- third-person singular past historic of torcere
Ancestry of “torse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | torcere | to twist; to wring; to bend |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | torcere | present active infinitive of *torcō |
| 3 | Latin | torqueō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | terkʷ- | to turn, spin |