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tortor

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Latin

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Etymology

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From tortura.

Noun

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tortor m (genitive tortōris); third declension

  1. executioner, torturer

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tortor tortōrēs
genitive tortōris tortōrum
dative tortōrī tortōribus
accusative tortōrem tortōrēs
ablative tortōre tortōribus
vocative tortor tortōrēs

Descendants

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  • Italian: tortore
  • Spanish: tortor

References

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

Venetan

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Noun

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tortor m (plural tortori)

  1. funnel