Latin

Noun

tormentum n ‎(genitive tormentī); second declension

1. an engine for hurling missiles; a shot or missile thrown by this
2. a (twisted) cord or rope
3. an instrument of torture
4. torture, anguish, pain, torment
5. a clothes press, mangle
6. (New Latin) gun, cannon

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• tormentuōsus

Related terms

• tormina
• torminālis
• torminōsus
• torqueō

Descendants

References

• tormentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tormentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TORMENTUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tormentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to threaten some one with death, crucifixion, torture, war: minitari (minari) alicui mortem, crucem et tormenta, bellum
    
  • to have a person tortured: alicui admovere tormenta
    
  • to have a person tortured: quaerere tormentis de aliquo
    
  • the pains of torture: cruciatūs tormentorum
    
  • to rain missiles on a town, bombard it: oppidum tormentis verberare
    
• tormentum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tormentum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin