Latin edit

Etymology edit

From tortura.

Noun edit

tortor m (genitive tortōris); third declension

  1. executioner, torturer

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tortor tortōrēs
Genitive tortōris tortōrum
Dative tortōrī tortōribus
Accusative tortōrem tortōrēs
Ablative tortōre tortōribus
Vocative tortor tortōrēs

Descendants edit

  • Italian: tortore
  • Spanish: tortor

References edit

  • tortor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tortor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tortor 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)
  • tortor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Venetian edit

Noun edit

tortor m (plural tortori)

  1. funnel