tormentum
Latin
Etymology
For *torcmentum, from torqueō (“twist, bend, wind”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /torˈmen.tum/, [tɔrˈmɛn.tũ]
Noun
tormentum n (genitive tormentī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tormentum | tormenta |
Genitive | tormentī | tormentōrum |
Dative | tormentō | tormentīs |
Accusative | tormentum | tormenta |
Ablative | tormentō | tormentīs |
Vocative | tormentum | tormenta |
Derived terms
- tormentuōsus
Related terms
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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- tormentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to threaten some one with death, crucifixion, torture, war: minitari (minari) alicui mortem, crucem et tormenta, bellum
- to have a person tortured: alicui admovere tormenta
- to have a person tortured: quaerere tormentis de aliquo
- the pains of torture: cruciatūs tormentorum
- to rain missiles on a town, bombard it: oppidum tormentis verberare
- to threaten some one with death, crucifixion, torture, war: minitari (minari) alicui mortem, crucem et tormenta, bellum
- 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
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