contorqueo

From con- +‎ torqueō (“twist”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɔr.kʷe.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̪ˈt̪ɔr.kʷe.o]

contorqueō (present infinitive contorquēre, perfect active contorsī, supine contortum); second conjugation

1. to turn, twist, swing or whirl (together); contort
2. (of a melee weapon) to brandish, wield
3. to turn, influence, sway
4. (of words or discourse) to hurl or throw out violently, utter vehemently
5. (of a throwing weapon) to hurl

   Iuppiter hastam contorquet^[1]

   Jupiter hurls a spear

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.50–52:

     “Sīc fātus, validīs ingentem vīribus hastam
     in latus inque ferī curvam compāgibus alvum
     contorsit.”

     “[Laocoön] thus having spoken [about the horse], with mighty strength he hurled a huge spear at its flank, and into the curved frames of its beastly belly.” – Aeneas

• Catalan: contòrcer-se
• English: contort
• Italian: contorcere
• Portuguese: contorcer
• Spanish: contorcer

• “contorqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contorqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contorqueo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.