tormentil

== English == === Etymology === From mediaeval Latin tormentilla (“minor pain”), perhaps referring to the conditions that the plant was used to treat. === Noun === tormentil (countable and uncountable, plural tormentils) A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla). 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340,[1] […] the hearbe Tormentill which hath seauen leaues resisteth all poysons. ==== Synonyms ==== shepherd's knot ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === intermolt == Dutch == === Alternative forms === (obsolete) tormentille === Etymology === From earlier tormentille, from Middle French tormentille. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɔr.mɛnˈtɪl/ Rhymes: -ɪl === Noun === tormentil f (uncountable, no diminutive) tormentil (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla) Hypernym: ganzerik === Further reading === tormentil on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl