# torrent
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɒɹ.ənt/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈtɔɹ.ənt/
* (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA: /ˈtɑɹ.ənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɹənt

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem, accusative of torrēns (“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latin torrēre (“to parch, scorch”).

#### Noun

torrent (plural torrents)
* A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
    Rain fell on the hills in torrents.
    A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.
** 1841 September 28, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] Excelsior.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 130:"Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!
** 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. […] Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
* (figuratively) A large amount or stream of something.
    They endured a torrent of inquiries.
** 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45:The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
** 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXI [Uniform ed., p. 278]:
    On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower.
** 1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 6:Western civilization has always taught the repression of emotion […] The emotional torrents of opera rebel against this.
** 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.

##### Derived terms

* BitTorrent
* torrent-bow
* torrent duck
* torrentfish
* torrential
* torrentine
* torrent-lark

##### Related terms

* torrid
* toast

##### Translations
#### Adjective

torrent (comparative more torrent, superlative most torrent)
* Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Waves of torrent fire.

#### See also

* barrage
* inundate
* deluge
* torrential

### Etymology 2

From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.

#### Noun

torrent (plural torrents)
* (Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.
    I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.

##### Translations
#### Verb

torrent (third-person singular simple present torrents, present participle torrenting, simple past and past participle torrented)
* (Internet slang, transitive) To download in a torrent.
    The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
** 2009, Rick Dakan, Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues, page 38:They had two thousand CDs burned with Listnin loaded on them, including versions for every major phone OS, and they'd set up a dozen servers in seven different countries for people to torrent the file from.

##### Derived terms

* torrenter

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torrentem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [tuˈren]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [toˈrent]

### Noun

torrent m (plural torrents)
* torrent

#### Derived terms

* torrencial
* torrentada
* torrentol

### Further reading

* “torrent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

torrent m (plural torrents)
* a torrent

#### Descendants

* → English: torrent
* → Romanian: torent

### Further reading

* “torrent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

torrent
* third-person plural present active indicative of torreō

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* torren (colloquial)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔrɛnt/

### Verb

torrent
* (literary) third-person plural imperfect/conditional of torri
* (literary) third-person plural imperative of torri

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.