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torpedo undersea weapon is
named after it. The name
comes from the
Latin torpere, 'to be
stiffened or paralyzed', from the
effect on
someone who touches...
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tornare < τόρνος (tórnos) tornado, tournament, turn torpe- be numb
Latin torpere torpent, torpid,
torpor torqu-, tort-
twist Latin torquere,
tortus contort...
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tornare < τόρνος (tórnos) tornado, tournament, turn torpe- be numb
Latin torpere torpent, torpid,
torpor torqu-, tort-
twist Latin torquere,
tortus contort...
- antiquity.
Torpedo was the
Roman name for
electric rays,
derived from
Latin torpere meaning 'to be numb'. Carl Linnaeus,
known as the "father of taxonomy"...
