# tormento
## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tormento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Latin tormentum as a semi-learned term. Compare Spanish tormento.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toɾˈmento̝/

### Noun

tormento m (plural tormentos)
* torment
* torture
** 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:Ano sobre dito de LV, a XXVI días de jullyo, o dito Pero Ardido declarou, en lle dando tormento, que tomara et roubara a un judio de Bayona, ena Portella de Santo Antón os ditos dose botóos et outros tantos que leua Esteuo Pallazín, seu parçeiro, et que lle tomara mays o roçín et que lle tomara mays as ditas cinquo bulsas et tres esqueiros et a dita çinta de prata et mays os diñeiros et os coroados vellos et huas botas et todo o al que lle acharon en seu poder, o baladrán et sayas, et hun correo con os ditos diñeiros, et que o leixaran atado en hun monte et que o dito Esteuo Pallazín que o quisera matar se él non fora, et que o dito Esteuo Pallasín que leuara outro tanto.Year, the aforementioned 1455, 26 days of July. Pedro Ardido declared, when they were giving torment to him, the he took and robbed a Jew from Baiona, at the pass of St. Anton, twelve buttons and many others which took Estevo Pallacín, his partner; and also he took his horse, and also five bags, and three tinderboxes and a silver ribbon and coins and old crowns and some boots, and all that they found in him, the garment and robes, and a money bag with the aforementioned coins; and that they left him tied in a hill, and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín wanted to kill the Jew, if it was not for him; and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín took as much.

#### Derived terms

* atormentar

#### Related terms

* torcer
* tormenta
* tortura

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tormento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tormento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tormento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tormento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Ido
### Noun

tormento (plural tormenti)
* torment, torture, plague

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /torˈmen.to/
* Rhymes: -ento
* Hyphenation: tor‧mén‧to

### Etymology 1

From Latin tormentum.

#### Noun

tormento m (plural tormenti)
* torment
* agony

##### Related terms

* tormentare
* torcere
* tortura

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tormento
* first-person singular present indicative of tormentare

## Latin
### Noun

tormentō
* dative/ablative singular of tormentum

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /toʁˈmẽ.tu/ [toɦˈmẽ.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /toʁˈmẽ.tu/ [toɦˈmẽ.tu]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /toɾˈmẽ.tu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /toʁˈmẽ.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /toɻˈmẽ.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tuɾˈmẽ.tu/
* Hyphenation: tor‧men‧to

### Etymology 1

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin tormentō.

#### Noun

tormento m (plural tormentos)
* torment (extreme physical or psychological pain)

##### Related terms

* tormenta
* tormentar
* atormentar
* torcer
* tortura

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tormento
* first-person singular present indicative of tormentar

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tormentum as a semi-learned term. If inherited, the expected form would be *tormiento. Cf. however tormientar, an archaic variant of atormentar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toɾˈmento/ [t̪oɾˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ento
* Syllabification: tor‧men‧to

### Noun

tormento m (plural tormentos)
* torment, torture

#### Related terms

* atormentar
* torcer
* tormenta
* tortura

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tormento”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “tormento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10