tortuosus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tor.tuˈoː.sus/, [t̪ɔrt̪uˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tor.tuˈo.sus/, [t̪ort̪uˈɔːs̬us]
Adjective edit
tortuōsus (feminine tortuōsa, neuter tortuōsum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | tortuōsus | tortuōsa | tortuōsum | tortuōsī | tortuōsae | tortuōsa | |
| Genitive | tortuōsī | tortuōsae | tortuōsī | tortuōsōrum | tortuōsārum | tortuōsōrum | |
| Dative | tortuōsō | tortuōsō | tortuōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | tortuōsum | tortuōsam | tortuōsum | tortuōsōs | tortuōsās | tortuōsa | |
| Ablative | tortuōsō | tortuōsā | tortuōsō | tortuōsīs | |||
| Vocative | tortuōse | tortuōsa | tortuōsum | tortuōsī | tortuōsae | tortuōsa | |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: tortuós
- English: tortuous
- French: tortueux
- Italian: tortuoso
- Portuguese: tortuoso
- Romanian: tortuos
- Spanish: tortuoso
References edit
- “tortuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tortuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tortuosus 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)
- tortuosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.