torte
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...cumque retro parte interiore latebunt, inde tamen, quamvis torte penitusque remota, omnia per flexos aditus educta licebit pluribus..." - P
Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Conpositum discrimen erit, discrimina lauda: Torserit igne comam, torte capille, place. Brachia saltantis, vocem mirare canentis, Et, quod..."