tortura

Etymology

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

Noun

tortura f (plural tortures)

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

Verb

tortura

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

Noun

tortura

1. torture

Etymology

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

Noun

tortura f (plural tortures)

1. torture

Verb

tortura

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

Verb

tortura

1. third-person singular past historic of torturer

Noun

tortura

1. torture

Etymology

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

Noun

tortura f (plural torture)

1. torture
2. torment

Verb

tortura

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

Anagrams

• rottura

Etymology

From torqueō (“twist; torture”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /torˈtuː.ra/, [tɔrˈtuː.ra]

Noun

tortūra f (genitive tortūrae); first declension

1. a twisting, wreathing
2. torture, torment

References

• 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, 1883–1887)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /toɹ.ˈtu.ɾa/, /toɹ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /toɻ.ˈtu.ɾa/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuɾ.ˈtu.ɾa/
• Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ra

Noun

tortura f (plural torturas)

1. torture (intentional causing of somebody experiencing agony)
2. (figuratively) a difficult situation

Verb

tortura

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of torturar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of torturar

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French torturer, Italian torturare.

Etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tortura.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tortúra f (Cyrillic spelling торту́ра)

1. torture

References

• “tortura” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology

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

Noun

tortura f (plural torturas)

1. torture

Verb

tortura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of torturar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of torturar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of torturar.