tormentum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tormentum. === Noun === tormentum (plural tormenta) (historical) An ancient engine for hurling missiles. == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *torkmentom. Related to torqueō (“twist, bend, wind”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɔrˈmɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [torˈmɛn.tum] === Noun === tormentum n (genitive tormentī); second declension an engine for hurling missiles; a shot or missile thrown by this, artillery a (twisted) cord or rope an instrument of torture torture, anguish, pain, torment a clothes press, mangle (New Latin) gun, cannon ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== tormentuōsus ==== Related terms ==== tormina torminālis torminōsus torqueō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “tormentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tormentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "tormentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “tormentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “tormentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “tormentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin