torcular

English

Etymology

From Latin torcular.

Noun

torcular (plural torculars)

1. (archaic) A tourniquet.

Derived terms

• torcular Herophili

Latin

Etymology

From torculus +‎ -ar, from torqueō.

Noun

torcular n (genitive torculāris); third declension

1. press (for wine or oil)
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.3.10:

     et implēbuntur horrea tua saturitāte et vīnō torculāria redundābunt

     And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

2. wine cellar (or room for pressing wine)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	torcular	torculāria
genitive	torculāris	torculārium
dative	torculārī	torculāribus
accusative	torcular	torculāria
ablative	torculārī	torculāribus
vocative	torcular	torculāria

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *troculārem
  • Old Catalan: trullar
  • Spanish: trujal
• → Italian: torcolare

References

• “torcular”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “torcular”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “torcular”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “torcular”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin