Translation
to twist, to wring
Word origin
From Latin torquere, to twist, through its past participle tortus. The root is one of the most productive in European languages: torque, torture, torment, contort, distort, retort and tortoise all come off it, the last because the animal's feet were seen as twisted.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- tortus
- English cognates
- torque, contort, torture, retort
Grammar
Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.
Examples
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He twisted the rope around his hand.
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She twisted the paper between her fingers.
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The wind twisted the branches of the tree.
No -- suffix, and no suffix of any kind. The word is tord- plus the infinitive -i, full stop. Esperanto has no --, and the run of borrowed words that end that way - , , , - share nothing but a Latin accident. What makes this seam tempting is that is a real Esperanto root meaning order, and t- looks like nothing much, so the eye offers you a parse. Refuse it. One root.
Transitive, so watch the --. takes an object: you twist something. The thing that twists by itself is i. against is, and if you get that pair right you have the whole igi/iĝi system in miniature. The same applies to an ankle: is how the sprain is normally said.
Against turni. is rotation about an axis - a key, a head, a wheel. is deformation: you are changing the shape of the thing, wringing it, wrenching it out of true. A cloth full of water is , not . Figuratively does the same work English gives to twisting the facts, and of a face is contorted.
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