Torc in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Torc

You can make 11 words from 'torc' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'torc'
• 3 letters words from 'torc'
• 2 letters words from 'torc'

4 letters words from 'torc'

TORC 6

3 letters words from 'torc'

COR 5	COT 5
ORC 5	ORT 3
ROC 5	ROT 3
TOC 5	TOR 3

2 letters words from 'torc'

OR 2

TO 2

Definitions and meaning of torc

torc

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)k/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
• Homophones: torq, torque, talk ('talk' in non-rhotic accents only)

Noun

torc (plural torcs)

1. Alternative spelling of torque (necklace)

Anagrams

• -cort, -cort-, COTR, Cort, Octr, Octr., ROTC, Troc, cort-, ctor

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• torcu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *torcō, from Latin torqueō. Compare Romanian toarce, torc.

Verb

torc (third-person singular present indicative tortsi, past participle torse)

1. I spin (yarn).

Related terms

• turtseri
• tors
• stãcor
• turte

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Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɔɾˠk/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠʌɾˠk/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish torc¹, from Proto-Celtic *torkos (“boar”).

Noun

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. wild boar (Sus scrofa)
2. portly, corpulent, person; man of substance

Derived terms

• toirceoil f (“boar meat, brawn”)
• torcán m (“little, young, boar; small corpulent person”)
• torc-chú m (“boarhound”)
• torcshleá f (“boar-spear”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish torc², from Latin torquis.

Noun

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. torque (braided necklace or collar)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English torque, from Latin torqueō (“I twist”).

Noun

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. (physics) torque

Declension

Mutation

References

• "torc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 torc (‘collar, torque’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tork/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *torkos (“boar”) (compare Welsh twrch).

Noun

torc m

1. boar
2. chieftain, hero

Inflection

Derived terms

• torcda

Descendants

• Irish: torc
• Scottish Gaelic: torc

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin torquis.

Noun

torc m

1. torque (necklace)

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: torc

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 torc (‘collar, torque’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Romanian

Verb

torc

1. first-person singular present indicative of toarce
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of toarce
3. third-person plural present indicative of toarce

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish torc¹, from Proto-Celtic *torkos (“boar”).

Noun

torc m (genitive singular tuirc, plural tuirc)

1. boar

Derived terms

• torc allaidh
• torc fiadhaich

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Source: wiktionary.org

• TORBANITE, a shale, almost a coal, once mined for oil at Torbane Hill in Scotland.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)