Words that come from Latin “tortus”

233 words across 42 languages descend from Latin tortus — including torture, tort, tortuous, torsion, torsional, trousseau, tortious, torturous.

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English (55)

French (30)

Latin (17)

Italian (17)

Old French (14)

Spanish (12)

Portuguese (12)

Hungarian (8)

Asturian (4)

German (4)

Romanian (4)

Middle English (4)

Galician (3)

Catalan (3)

Polish (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Norman (3)

Anglo-Norman (3)

Late Latin (3)

Vulgar Latin (3)

Middle Dutch (2)

Russian (2)

Japanese (2)

Friulian (2)

Finnish (2)

Romansch (2)

Czech (1)

Dutch (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Danish (1)

Macedonian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Albanian (1)

Armenian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Esperanto (1)

Bourguignon (1)

Canadian French (1)

Mòcheno (1)

Ido (1)