tortuoso
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin tortuōsus.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /tor.tuˈo.zo/, (traditional) /tor.tuˈo.so/
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ó‧so
Adjective edit
tortuoso (feminine tortuosa, masculine plural tortuosi, feminine plural tortuose)
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Latin edit
Adjective edit
tortuōsō
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin tortuōsus.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧o‧so
Adjective edit
tortuoso (feminine tortuosa, masculine plural tortuosos, feminine plural tortuosas, metaphonic)
- tortuous (having many turns and twists)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin tortuōsus (“coiled, winding”), from tortus (“twisted, twined”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tortuoso (feminine tortuosa, masculine plural tortuosos, feminine plural tortuosas)
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Further reading edit
- “tortuoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014