torrere
91tosto — tosto1 / tɔsto/ agg. [lat. tostus, part. pass. di torrēre disseccare, tostare ]. 1. a. (lett., region.) [di particolare durezza: carni t. ] ▶◀ consistente, duro, sodo. ◀▶ molle, morbido, soffice, tenero. ● Espressioni: fig., fam., faccia tosta… …
92toast — toast1 S3 [təust US toust] n [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: TOAST2;] [Sense: 2; Origin: from the use of pieces of toast to add to the taste of drink] 1.) [U] bread that has been heated so that it is brown on both sides and no longer soft ▪ I had a… …
93torrent — tor|rent [ˈtɔrənt US ˈto: , ˈta: ] n [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: Latin torrens burning, going very fast , from torrere; TORRID] 1.) a large amount of water moving very quickly and strongly in a particular direction →↑flood ▪ After five… …
94torrid — tor|rid [ˈtɔrıd US ˈto: , ˈta: ] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: torridus, from torrere to dry with heat, burn ] 1.) involving strong emotions, especially of sexual love ▪ a torrid love affair 2.) literary torrid weather is very hot ▪ the… …
95toasten — toas|ten [ to:...] <nach gleichbed. engl. to toast, dies über altfr. toster »rösten« aus spätlat. tostare zu lat. tostum, Part. Perf. (Neutrum) von torrere »dörren«>: 1. Weißbrot rösten. 2. einen Trinkspruch ausbringen …
96tosto — tos|to <it. ; zu spätlat. tostus, Part. Perf. von lat. torrere »entflammen«, eigtl. »erhitzen«> hurtig, eilig, sofort (Vortragsanweisung; Mus.) …
97thirst — [OE] The etymological notion underlying the word thirst is of being ‘dry’. For it goes back ultimately to the Indo European base *trs, *tors ‘dry’, which also produced Latin torrēre ‘parch’ (source of English toast, torrid, etc). From this was… …
98toast — [14] Toast comes via Old French toster ‘roast, grill’ from Vulgar Latin *tostāre, a derivative of the past participle of Latin torrēre ‘parch’ (source of English torrid). Its use as a noun, meaning ‘toasted bread’, dates from the 15th century. It …
99torrent — [17] Despite its firm connections with ‘water’, torrent comes from a source that meant ‘scorch, parch’. This was Latin torrēre, which also produced English toast and torrid [16] and is related to thirst. Its present participle torrēns was used… …
100Durst — Sm std. (9. Jh.), mhd. durst, ahd. durst, thu(r)st, as. thurst Stammwort. Aus wg. * þurstu m. Durst (eigentlich Dürre ), auch in ae. þurst. Daneben steht gt. þaurstei, das ein Abstraktum zu einem * þursta vertrocknet, durstig zu sein scheint;… …
