torr

From Middle English torr, from Old English torr.

torr (plural torrs)

1. Archaic form of tor.

Clipping of Torricelli; named after Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who discovered the principle of the barometer.

• Torr

torr (plural torrs or torr)

1. (metrology) A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.

   Synonyms: (symbol) Torr, (not exactly synonyms, but practically equal) millimeter of mercury

• rort

torr m inan

1. torr (unit of pressure)

• “torr”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “torr”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Named for Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist

torr n (genitive singular tors, plural torr)

1. torr, approximately 1.316·10^-3 atmosphere or 133.3 pascals.

n9	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	torr	torrið	torr	torrini
Accusative	torr	torrið	torr	torrini
Dative	torri	torrinum	torrum	torrunum
Genitive	tors	torsins	torra	torranna

torr m (plural torrs)

1. torr

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

torr m (invariable)

1. (meteorology) torr (unit of pressure)

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

• IPA^(key): /tor/, /tur/

torr ?

1. tower

• tūr, tor

Borrowed from Latin turris.

• IPA^(key): /torr/, [torˠ]

torr m

1. tower

Strong a-stem:

• stīepel m

• fȳrtorr m

• Middle English: tour, thour, tor, tore, toure, towere, towour, tur
  • English: tower (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: tour, towr
  • Yola: toweare

torr m (plural torrs)

1. torr (unit of pressure)

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From Old Norse þurr, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *térsus, from *ters- (“dry”).

torr (comparative torrare, superlative torrast)

1. dry
2. (overly) matter-of-fact and humorless, dull

• torrboll (“bore”)

torr ?

1. torr; a unit of pressure

• torr in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• torr in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• torr in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• tror