English

Noun

tormina ‎(usually uncountable, plural torminae)

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

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

Usage notes

• Sometimes misconstrued as a plural, as if from the non-existent Latin *torminum.

Latin

Etymology

From torqueō ‎(“twist, turn”).

Noun

tormina n ‎(genitive torminum); third declension

1. (plural only) (medicine) colic

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Derived terms

• torminalis
• torminosus

References

• 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