Noun: tormentum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | tormentum |
| Plural | tormenta |
Genitive
| Singular | tormentī |
| Plural | tormentōrum |
Dative
| Singular | tormentō |
| Plural | tormentīs |
Accusative
| Singular | tormentum |
| Plural | tormenta |
Ablative
| Singular | tormentō |
| Plural | tormentīs |
Vocative
| Singular | tormentum |
| Plural | tormenta |
Sample Sentences
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At illī, quibus nōn tantum cōram dominīs, sed cum ipsīs erat sermō — quōrum os nōn cōnsuēbātur — parātī erant prō dominō porrigere cervīcem, perīculum imminēns in caput suum āvertere; in convīviīs loquēbantur, sed in tormentīs tacēbant. (But those [slaves] for whom not only in-person to [their] masters but with themselves was conversation [permitted] — whose mouth was not stitched shut — ready they were on behalf of the master to offer the neck, an impending danger onto their own head to turn; at dinner parties they were speaking, but in tortures they were silent.
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(In other words, Seneca makes the extraordinary claim that slaves who are treated humanely will sacrifice themselves and refuse to testify under torture. See, e.g.: Pythias (Roman).)) [c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.4]
Nouns inflected like tormentum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *torkmentom. Related to torqueō (“twist, bend, wind”).
Verbs referencing "tormentum"
English Nouns
torment, Middle English Nouns
torment, Galician Nouns
tormento, Italian Nouns
tormento, Spanish Nouns
tormento, French Nouns
tourment, Catalan Nouns
turment.
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