Torres (sometimes Torrez[1] or Torrès) is a surname in the Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish languages, meaning "towers".[2]
^as an internalized misspelling in non-native environments — cf.-ez
^"torres" in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)