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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tortus	torta	tortum		tortī	tortae	torta
genitive	tortī	tortae	tortī		tortōrum	tortārum	tortōrum
dative	tortō	tortae	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

Related terms

• tortilis
• tortiō
• tortūra

Descendants

• Catalan: tort
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: torto
  • Sicilian: tortu
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: tòrt
• Piedmontese: tòrt
• Romanian: tort
• Venetan: torto
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: tuerto
  • Old Galician-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.

	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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.