tormina

English

Etymology

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

Latin

Etymology

From torqueō (“twist, turn”).

Noun

tormina n (genitive torminum); third declension

  1. (plural only) (medicine) colic

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Plural
nominative tormina
genitive torminum
dative torminibus
accusative tormina
ablative torminibus
vocative tormina

Derived terms

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
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