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Where does “torcious” come from?

torcious (Old French) comes from Old French tort, from Latin tortum, from Latin tortus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

torcious (Old French): wrongful; unlawful; illegal

Definitions

  1. wrongful; unlawful; illegal

Ancestry of “torcious”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtortwrong; misdeed
2Latintortumnominative neuter singular of tortus; accusative...
3Latintortustwisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →