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turre

turre is a Latin form of turris, meaning “tower”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.20.5: … feri homines et acres et omnibus rebus ad defendendum parati. cinximus vallo et fossa; aggere maximo, vineis, turre altissima, magna tormentorum copia, multis sagittariis, magno labore, apparatu multis sauciis nostris, incolu …

Statius, Thebais 7.243: Turre procul sola nondum concessa videri

All forms of turris (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.