tortura

From Late Latin tortūra, from Latin tortus, from torqueō.

tortura f (plural tortures)

1. torture (intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony)

• torturar

tortura

1. third-person singular present indicative of torturar
2. second-person singular imperative of torturar

tortura ?

1. torture

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [turˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [toɾˈtu.ɾa]

Borrowed from Late Latin tortūra, a noun ultimately on torqueō (“twist”).

tortura f (plural tortures)

1. torture (intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony)

• torturar

tortura

1. inflection of torturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tortura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tortura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tortura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tortura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin torquere.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtortura]
• Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ra

tortura f

1. torture

   Synonym: mučení

• “tortura”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tortura”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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tortura

1. third-person singular past historic of torturer

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin tortūra (“twisting; torture”), from Latin tortus, from torqueō (“I twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”).

tortura f (plural torturas)

1. torture (intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony)

• torturar

• “tortura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

tortura

1. inflection of torturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /torˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: tor‧tù‧ra

From Late Latin tortūra, from Latin tortus, passive perfect participle of torqueō.

tortura f (plural torture)

1. (obsolete) the act of bending or twisting

   Synonyms: torcimento, torcitura

2. torture (intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony)
3. (figurative) torment

   Synonym: tormento

• torturare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tortura

1. inflection of torturare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• tortura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• rottura

From torqueō (“twist; torture”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /torˈtuː.ra/, [t̪ɔrˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /torˈtu.ra/, [t̪orˈt̪uːrä]

tortūra f (genitive tortūrae); first declension

1. a twisting, wreathing
2. torture, torment

First-declension noun.

• “tortura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tortura 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)

Borrowed from French torture.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrˈtu.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: tor‧tu‧ra

tortura f (related adjective torturowy or torturalny)

1. torture (severe pain or anguish, of mind or body)

   Synonym: cierpienie

2. (chiefly in the plural) torture (infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish)

   Synonyms: kaźń, męczarnia, męki

• tortura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tortura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• tortury in PWN's encyclopedia

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ra

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin tortūra (“twisting; torture”), from Latin tortus, from torqueō (“to twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”).

tortura f (plural torturas)

1. torture (intentional causing of somebody experiencing agony)

   Synonyms: suplício, tormento

2. (figurative) a difficult situation

• torturar

tortura

1. inflection of torturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tortura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from French torturer, Italian torturare.

• IPA^(key): /tor.tuˈra/

a tortura (third-person singular present torturează, past participle torturat) 1st conj.

1. to torture

   Synonym: chinui

• tortură

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /torˈtu.ra/

tortura f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of tortură

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tortura.

• IPA^(key): /tortǔːra/
• Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ra

tortúra f (Cyrillic spelling торту́ра)

1. torture

• “tortura”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtuɾa/ [t̪oɾˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: tor‧tu‧ra

Borrowed from Late Latin tortūra, from Latin tortus, from torqueō.

tortura f (plural torturas)

1. torture (intentional causing of somebody experiencing agony)

tortura

1. inflection of torturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tortura”, 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