tormentum

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tormentum.

Noun

tormentum (plural tormenta)

  1. (historical) An ancient engine for hurling missiles.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *torkmentom. Related to torqueō (“twist, bend, wind”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tormentum n (genitive tormentī); second declension

  1. an engine for hurling missiles; a shot or missile thrown by this, artillery
  2. a (twisted) cord or rope
  3. an instrument of torture
  4. torture, anguish, pain, torment
  5. a clothes press, mangle
  6. (New Latin) gun, cannon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tormentum tormenta
Genitive tormentī tormentōrum
Dative tormentō tormentīs
Accusative tormentum tormenta
Ablative tormentō tormentīs
Vocative tormentum tormenta

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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 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, 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
  • “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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