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torta

torta is a Latin form of torqueo, meaning “twist, turn; hurl; torture, torment”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 1.349: quam Cereri torta redimitus tempora quercu

Ovid, Heroides 19.37: Tortaque versato ducentes stamina fuso

All forms of torqueo (conjugation 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.