tortus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of torqueō. ==== Participle ==== tortus (feminine torta, neuter tortum); first/second-declension participle twisted, crooked spun, whirled bent, distorted tormented, tortured ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === From torqueō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== tortus m (genitive tortūs); fourth declension a twist, a winding wreath ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== tortuōsus === References === “tortus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tortus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “tortus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tortus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "tortus", 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) “tortus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. IVb. p. 754.