tortuose

English

Etymology

See tortuous.

Adjective

tortuose (comparative more tortuose, superlative most tortuose)

  1. wreathed; twisted; winding
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tortuose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Adjective

tortuose

  1. Feminine plural form of tortuoso

Latin

Adjective

tortuōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of tortuōsus

References

  • tortuose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tortuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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