torquate

[ tawr-kwit, -kweyt ]

adjective

, Zoology.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of torquate¹

1655–65; < Latin torquātus adorned with a necklace, equivalent to torqu ( ēs ) twisted neck-chain + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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."

From Project Gutenberg