Masculine

tormento

Meaning

torment, torture

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
tor‧men‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/toɾˈmento/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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