tormento

See also: tormentò

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tormento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Latin tormentum as a semi-learned term. Compare Spanish tormento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈmento̝/

Noun

tormento m (plural tormentos)

1. torment
2. torture
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:

     Ano sobre dito de LV, a XXVI días de jullyo, o dito Pero Ardido declarou, en lle dando tormento, que tomara et roubara a un judio de Bayona, ena Portella de Santo Antón os ditos dose botóos et outros tantos que leua Esteuo Pallazín, seu parçeiro, et que lle tomara mays o roçín et que lle tomara mays as ditas cinquo bulsas et tres esqueiros et a dita çinta de prata et mays os diñeiros et os coroados vellos et huas botas et todo o al que lle acharon en seu poder, o baladrán et sayas, et hun correo con os ditos diñeiros, et que o leixaran atado en hun monte et que o dito Esteuo Pallazín que o quisera matar se él non fora, et que o dito Esteuo Pallasín que leuara outro tanto.

     Year, the aforementioned 1455, 26 days of July. Pedro Ardido declared, when they were giving torment to him, the he took and robbed a Jew from Baiona, at the pass of St. Anton, twelve buttons and many others which took Estevo Pallacín, his partner; and also he took his horse, and also five bags, and three tinderboxes and a silver ribbon and coins and old crowns and some boots, and all that they found in him, the garment and robes, and a money bag with the aforementioned coins; and that they left him tied in a hill, and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín wanted to kill the Jew, if it was not for him; and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín took as much.

Derived terms

• atormentar

Related terms

• torcer
• tormenta
• tortura

References

• “tormento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tormento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tormento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tormento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Ido

Noun

tormento (plural tormenti)

1. torment, torture, plague

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /torˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: tor‧mén‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin tormentum.

Noun

tormento m (plural tormenti)

1. torment
2. agony

Related terms

• tormentare
• torcere
• tortura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tormento

1. first-person singular present indicative of tormentare

Latin

Noun

tormentō

1. dative/ablative singular of tormentum

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /toʁˈmẽ.tu/ [toɦˈmẽ.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /toʁˈmẽ.tu/ [toɦˈmẽ.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /toɾˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /toʁˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /toɻˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuɾˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: tor‧men‧to

Etymology 1

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin tormentō.

Noun

tormento m (plural tormentos)

1. torment (extreme physical or psychological pain)

Related terms

• tormenta
• tormentar
• atormentar
• torcer
• tortura

Etymology 2

Verb

tormento

1. first-person singular present indicative of tormentar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tormentum as a semi-learned term. If inherited, the expected form would be *tormiento. Cf. however tormientar, an archaic variant of atormentar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈmento/ [t̪oɾˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: tor‧men‧to

Noun

tormento m (plural tormentos)

1. torment, torture

Related terms

• atormentar
• torcer
• tormenta
• tortura

 

Further reading

• “tormento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014