tormina

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, ultimately from torqueō (“twist, turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːmɪnə/

Noun

tormina (usually uncountable, plural torminae)

1. (medicine) acute pain in the abdomen; colic, gripes
   • 1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command

     Clonfert’s tormina exercise ^[sic] my mind; for by whatever private scale of pain one may measure them, they must come tolerably high.

Usage notes

• Sometimes misconstrued as a plural, as if from the non-existent Latin *torminum.

Anagrams

• minorat

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Latin

Etymology

From torqueō (“twist, turn”).

Noun

tormina n pl (genitive torminum); third declension

1. (plural only) (medicine) colic

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	tormina
Genitive	torminum
Dative	torminibus
Accusative	tormina
Ablative	torminibus
Vocative	tormina

Derived terms

• torminalis
• torminosus

References

• “tormina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tormina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers