tormenta

tormenta is a Latin form of tormentum, meaning “catapult, siege engine; torture, torment; rope”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 164 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.8.4: et ad extremas fossas castella constituit ibique tormenta conlocavit, ne, cum aciem instruxisset, hostes, quod tantum multitudine poterant, ab lateribus pugnantes suos circumvenire possent.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 7.67.4: Distingue, mi Lucili, ista, et intelleges esse in iis aliquid optandum. Tormenta abesse a me velim; sed si sustinenda fuerint, ut me in illis fortiter, honeste, animose geram, optabo, Quidni …

All forms of tormentum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.