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English
Etymology
See tortuous.
Adjective
tortuose (comparative more tortuose, superlative most tortuose)
- wreathed; twisted; winding
1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:Crust tartareous or leprose uneven pulverulent, Apothecia roundish dissimilar waved plaited tortuose and variously expanded in the disk
References
Interlingua
Adjective
tortuose (not comparable)
- tortuose, tortuous (twisted)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tor.tuˈo.ze/, (traditional) /tor.tuˈo.se/
- Rhymes: -oze, (traditional) -ose
- Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ó‧se
Adjective
tortuose
- feminine plural of tortuoso
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
tortuōse
- vocative masculine singular of tortuōsus
References
- “tortuose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tortuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.