tortuosus
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɔr.tuˈoː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪or.t̪uˈɔː.s̬us]
Adjective
tortuōsus (feminine tortuōsa, neuter tortuōsum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | tortuōsus | tortuōsa | tortuōsum | tortuōsī | tortuōsae | tortuōsa | |
| genitive | tortuōsī | tortuōsae | tortuōsī | tortuōsōrum | tortuōsārum | tortuōsōrum | |
| dative | tortuōsō | tortuōsae | tortuōsō | tortuōsīs | |||
| accusative | tortuōsum | tortuōsam | tortuōsum | tortuōsōs | tortuōsās | tortuōsa | |
| ablative | tortuōsō | tortuōsā | tortuōsō | tortuōsīs | |||
| vocative | tortuōse | tortuōsa | tortuōsum | tortuōsī | tortuōsae | tortuōsa | |
Descendants
- Catalan: tortuós
- → English: tortuous
- French: tortueux
- → Romanian: tortuos
- Italian: tortuoso
- Portuguese: tortuoso
- Spanish: tortuoso
References
- “tortuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tortuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "tortuosus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tortuosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.