TORQUATE Definition & Meaning

torquate

[ tawr-kwit, -kweyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Zoology.

ringed about the neck, as with feathers or a color; collared.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of torquate¹

1655–65; < Latin �ٴǰ��ٳܲ� adorned with a necklace, equivalent to torqu ( ŧ�� ) twisted neck-chain + -��ٳܲ� -ate ¹

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More than race to the Roman; more than power to the statesman; yet helpless beside the grave,—"Non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te, Restitvet pietas."

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