tortus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of torqueō.

Participle

tortus (feminine torta, neuter tortum); first/second-declension participle

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	tortus	torta	tortum	tortī	tortae	torta
genitive	tortī	tortae	tortī	tortōrum	tortārum	tortōrum
dative	tortō	tortae	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

Descendants

Catalan: tort
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: torto
- Sicilian: tortu
Old Occitan:
- Occitan: tòrt
Piedmontese: tòrt
Romanian: tort
Venetan: torto
West Iberian
- Aragonese: tuerto
- Old Galician-Portuguese: torto
  - Galician: torto
  - Portuguese: torto
- Spanish: tuerto

Noun

tortus m (genitive tortūs); fourth declension

a twist, a winding
wreath

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	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.