tormento

From Old Galician-Portuguese tormento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Latin tormentum as a semi-learned term. Compare Spanish tormento.

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈmento̝/

tormento m (plural tormentos)

1. torment
2. torture
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:

     Ano sobre dito de LV, a XXVI días de jullyo, o dito Pero Ardido declarou, en lle dando tormento, que tomara et roubara a un judio de Bayona, ena Portella de Santo Antón os ditos dose botóos et outros tantos que leua Esteuo Pallazín, seu parçeiro, et que lle tomara mays o roçín et que lle tomara mays as ditas cinquo bulsas et tres esqueiros et a dita çinta de prata et mays os diñeiros et os coroados vellos et huas botas et todo o al que lle acharon en seu poder, o baladrán et sayas, et hun correo con os ditos diñeiros, et que o leixaran atado en hun monte et que o dito Esteuo Pallazín que o quisera matar se él non fora, et que o dito Esteuo Pallasín que leuara outro tanto.

     Year, the aforementioned 1455, 26 days of July. Pedro Ardido declared, when they were giving torment to him, the he took and robbed a Jew from Baiona, at the pass of St. Anton, twelve buttons and many others which took Estevo Pallacín, his partner; and also he took his horse, and also five bags, and three tinderboxes and a silver ribbon and coins and old crowns and some boots, and all that they found in him, the garment and robes, and a money bag with the aforementioned coins; and that they left him tied in a hill, and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín wanted to kill the Jew, if it was not for him; and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín took as much.

• atormentar

• torcer
• tormenta
• tortura

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tormento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tormento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tormento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tormento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

tormento (plural tormenti)

1. torment, torture, plague

• IPA^(key): /torˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: tor‧mén‧to

From Latin tormentum.

tormento m (plural tormenti)

1. torment
2. agony

• tormentare
• torcere
• tortura

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tormento

1. first-person singular present indicative of tormentare

tormentō

1. dative/ablative singular of tormentum

• Hyphenation: tor‧men‧to

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin tormentō.

tormento m (plural tormentos)

1. torment (extreme physical or psychological pain)

• tormenta
• tormentar
• atormentar
• torcer
• tortura

tormento

1. first-person singular present indicative of tormentar

Borrowed from Latin tormentum as a semi-learned term.^[1] If inherited, the expected form would be *tormiento. Cf. however tormientar, an archaic variant of atormentar.

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈmento/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: tor‧men‧to

tormento m (plural tormentos)

1. torment, torture

• “tormento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28