English
torose
Torose comes from Latin torosus ‘full of muscle, brawny, fleshy’, and perhaps goes back to Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘to cross, go through’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₂-1‘to cross, go through’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*torh₂-os1uncertain
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtorus2‘muscle, flesh’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtorosus3‘full of muscle, brawny, fleshy’
- Englishearliest quotation 1832torose3
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin torus
- 2 Wiktionary, Latin torosus
- 3 Wiktionary, English torose
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany: “Perhaps the figure in Plum, icon t. 102, f.…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₂-Wiktionary, Latin torus‘to cross, go through’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*torh₂-osWiktionary, Latin torusuncertain
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtorusWiktionary, Latin torosus‘muscle, flesh’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtorosusWiktionary, English torose‘full of muscle, brawny, fleshy’
- Englishearliest quotation 1832toroseWiktionary, English torose. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany: “Perhaps the figure in Plum, icon t. 102, f.…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘to cross, go through’
through, enter, trans, avatar, thorough, tram, tranquillity, tardy, sarai, 19 more
through Latin torus ‘muscle, flesh’
Today it means
adj Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “torose”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin torus, Latin torosus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- / torose