tormento
See also: tormentò
Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish tormento (“torment”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tormento
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese tormento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Latin tormentum as a semi-learned term. Compare Spanish tormento.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tormento m (plural tormentos)
- torment
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “tormento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tormento”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- 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
Ido
[edit]Noun
[edit]tormento (plural tormenti)
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]tormento m (plural tormenti)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]tormento
Latin
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɔrˈmɛn.toː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [torˈmɛn.to]
Verb
[edit]tormentō (present infinitive tormentāre, perfect active tormentāvī, supine tormentātum); first conjugation (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- to hurl (a projectile), to fling
- to torment, to torture, to excruciate
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of tormentō (first conjugation)
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Synonyms
[edit]- (all senses) torqueō
Noun
[edit]tormentō
References
[edit]- "tormentare", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tormentare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
- Hyphenation: tor‧men‧to
Etymology 1
[edit]Etymology tree
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin tormentō.
Noun
[edit]tormento m (plural tormentos)
- torment (extreme physical or psychological pain)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]tormento
Further reading
[edit]- “tormento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “tormento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tormento m (plural tormentos)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “tormento”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “tormento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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