tormina

From Latin tormina, ultimately from torqueō (“twist, turn”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːmɪnə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹmɪnə/

tormina pl (plural only)

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

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

• Generally construed as a plural, based on the Latin being a plurale tantum word.

• Martino, minorat

From torqueō (“I twist, turn”) +‎ -men.

tormina n pl (genitive torminum); third declension

1. (plural only) (medicine) colic, gripes

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

• torminalis
• torminosus

• “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