tortus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of torqueō.

Participle

tortus (feminine torta, neuter tortum); first/second-declension participle

1. twisted, crooked
2. spun, whirled
3. bent, distorted
4. tormented, tortured

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tortus	torta	tortum		tortī	tortae	torta
Genitive	tortī	tortae	tortī		tortōrum	tortārum	tortōrum
Dative	tortō		tortō		tortīs
Accusative	tortum	tortam	tortum		tortōs	tortās	torta
Ablative	tortō	tortā	tortō		tortīs
Vocative	torte	torta	tortum		tortī	tortae	torta

Derived terms

• tortum (noun)
  • Romanian: tort
  • Istriot: tuorto
  • Old French: tort (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: tort
  • Friulian: tuart
  • → Albanian: tortë

• torta (participle)
  • Romanian: toartă
  • Sicilian: torta

• torta (noun) (from torta pānis (literally “twisted bread”))
  • Vulgar Latin: *turta
    • Eastern Romance
      • Aromanian: turtã
      • Romanian: turtă
    • Piedmontese: torta, turta
    • Italo-Dalmatian
      • Dalmatian: turta
      • Italian: torta
      • Sicilian: turta
    • Old French: tourte
      • Bourguignon: torte
      • French: tourte
      • ⇒ Old French: tarte (variant)
        • French: tarte (see there for further descendants)
        • → Middle English: tarte, tart, taarte, tarthe
          • English: tart
          • Scots: tairt
    • Rhaeto-Romance
      • Friulian: torte
      • Romansch: turta, tuorta
    • Sardinian: turta
    • Venetian: torta
    • West Iberian
      • Old Portuguese: [Term?]
        • Galician: torta
        • Portuguese: torta
      • Old Spanish: torta
        • Spanish: torta
          • → English: torta
        • ⇒ Old Spanish: tortiella
          • Spanish: tortilla
    • → Cimbrian: turt
    • → Mòcheno: turt
  • → Albanian: tortë
  • → Koine Greek: τούρτα (toúrta)
    • Greek: τούρτα (toúrta)
  • ⇒? Catalan: truita

Related terms

• tortilis
• tortiō
• tortūra

Descendants

• Romanian: tort
• Piedmontese: tòrt
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: torto
  • Sicilian: tortu
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: tort
  • Occitan: tòrt
• Venetian: torto
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: tuerto
  • Old Portuguese: torto
    • Galician: torto
    • Portuguese: torto
  • Spanish: tuerto

Noun

tortus m (genitive tortūs); fourth declension

1. a twist, a winding
2. wreath

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tortus	tortūs
Genitive	tortūs	tortuum
Dative	tortuī	tortibus
Accusative	tortum	tortūs
Ablative	tortū	tortibus
Vocative	tortus	tortūs

Derived terms

• tortuōsus

References

• tortus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tortus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tortus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette