Where does “tortious” come from?
Tortious comes from Anglo-Norman torcious, derived from Old French tort meaning "wrong," ultimately from Latin torquere meaning "to twist."
tortious (English): Wrongful; harmful; Of, pertaining to, or...
Definitions
- Wrongful; harmful; Of, pertaining to, or...
Ancestry of “tortious”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | torcious | wrongful; unlawful; illegal |
| 2 | Old French | tort | wrong; misdeed |
| 3 | Latin | tortum | nominative neuter singular of tortus; accusative... |
| 4 | Latin | tortus | twisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |