Comparative evidence

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• Lat. torrēscō -ere ‘be scorched’, ‘be parched’ (OLD: 1952)

• Lat. torreō -ēre ‘to heat’, ‘to scorch’, ‘parch’, ‘burn’ (OLD: 1952)

• Lat. torrēns -ntis ‘burning hot’, ‘flowing headlong’, ‘rushing’ (OLD: 1951)

References

OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.