tormentumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tormentum (複数形 tormenta)

1. (historical) An ancient engine for hurling missiles.

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *torkmentom. Related to torqueō (“twist, bend, wind”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /torˈmen.tum/, [t̪ɔrˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /torˈmen.tum/, [t̪orˈmɛn̪t̪um]

名詞

tormentum n (genitive tormentī); second declension

1. an engine for hurling missiles; a shot or missile thrown by this, artillery
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

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• tormentuōsus

関連する語

• tormina
• torminālis
• torminōsus
• torqueō

派生した語

参照

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tormentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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