torto
Meaning
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- twisted, bent, crooked
- awry
- wrong, dishonest
- one-eyed, cross-eyed
Frequency
Hyphenated as
tor‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtoʁ.tu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese torto, from Latin tortus, from torqueō. Cognate with Galician torto, Spanish tuerto, Catalan tort, French tordu, Italian torto and Romanian tort.
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