tortuose

English

Etymology

See tortuous.

Adjective

tortuose (comparative more tortuose, superlative most tortuose)

1. wreathed; twisted; winding
   • 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:

     Crust tartareous or leprose uneven pulverulent, Apothecia roundish dissimilar waved plaited tortuose and variously expanded in the disk

References

• “tortuose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Interlingua

Adjective

tortuose (not comparable)

1. tortuose, tortuous (twisted)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tor.tuˈo.ze/, (traditional) /tor.tuˈo.se/
• Rhymes: -oze, (traditional) -ose
• Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ó‧se

Adjective

tortuose

1. feminine plural of tortuoso

Anagrams

• ottusero

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tor.tuˈoː.se/, [t̪ɔrt̪uˈoːs̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tor.tuˈo.se/, [t̪ort̪uˈɔːs̬e]

Adjective

tortuōse

1. vocative masculine singular of tortuōsus

References

• “tortuose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tortuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.