tormina

English

Etymology

From Latin, ultimately from torqueō (“twist, turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːmɪnə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹmɪnə/

Noun

tormina pl (plural only)

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

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

Usage notes

• Generally construed as a plural, based on the Latin being a plurale tantum word.

Anagrams

• Martino, minorat

Latin

Etymology

From torqueō (“I twist, turn”) +‎ -men.

Noun

tormina n pl (genitive torminum); third declension

1. (plural only) (medicine) colic, gripes

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), plural only.

	plural
nominative	tormina
genitive	torminum
dative	torminibus
accusative	tormina
ablative	torminibus
vocative	tormina

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