tortus
Latin
Etymology
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.
| 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
Related terms
- tortilis
- tortiō
- tortūra
Descendants
- Catalan: tort
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: torto
- Sicilian: tortu
- Old Occitan:
- Occitan: tòrt
- Piedmontese: tòrt
- Romanian: tort
- Venetian: torto
- West Iberian
- Aragonese: tuerto
- Old Portuguese: torto
- Galician: torto
- Portuguese: torto
- Spanish: tuerto
Noun
tortus m (genitive tortūs); fourth declension
- a twist, a winding
- 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 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