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turres

turres is a Latin form of turris, meaning “tower”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun.

Found 119 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.21.2: Quorum magno numero interfecto Crassus ex itinere oppidum Sotiatium oppugnare coepit. Quibus fortiter resistentibus vineas turresque egit.

Vitruvius, On Architecture 1.5.5: Turres itaque rotundae aut polygonoe sunt faciendae; quadratas enim machinae celerius dissipant, quod angulos ariete …

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.