tort

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /tɔːt/    美 /tɔɹt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
    — […] Wrong or Iniury, is in French aptly called Tort, becauſe Iniury & wrong is wreſted or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and ſtreight. […] And Britton ſaith that Tort a la ley eſt contrarye [a wrong to the law is contrary], and as aptly for the cauſe aforeſaid is iniury in English called wrong.
  2. Clipping of tortoise. UK,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,dialectal
  3. Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings; a tortie”). UK,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,dialectal
  4. An injury or wrong. obsolete
    — Then gan triumphant Trompets ſovvnd on hye, / That ſent to heuen the ecchoed report / Of their nevv ioy, and happie victory / Gainſt him, that had them long oppreſt with tort, / And faſt impriſoned in ſieged fort.
形容词 adj.
  1. Twisted. obsolete
    — And the firſt that came and gaue them moſt comfort was Henry Erle of Lãcaſter with yͤ wrie neck, called Tort coll [torticollis], who was brother to Thomas Erle of Lãcaſter yͭ was behedded, as ye haue heard before, who was a right vertuous & good knight as after ye ſhal here.
  2. Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”) UK,dialectal
  3. Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”). UK,dialectal,obsolete
    — Yet holds he them with tortest rein, / That they may seize and entertain / The glance that to their glance opposes, / Like fiery honey sucked from roses.
  4. Of a boat: watertight. UK,dialectal,obsolete

词形变化

torts plural more tort comparative most tort superlative torter comparative tortest superlative torts plural torts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Eurotort nontort quasi-tort tort law tortness torts
相关词
cotortfeasor delict de son tort tortfeasance tortfeasor tortionary tortious tortiously

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), from Old French tort (“misdeed, wrong”) (modern French tort (“an error, wrong; a fault”)), from Medieval Latin tortum (“injustice, wrong”), a noun use of a neuter singular participle form of Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”), the perfect passive participle of torqueō (“to bend or twist awry, distort”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
Cognates
* Galician torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong, tort”)
* Italian torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) injustice, wrong”)
* Norwegian Bokmål tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Norwegian Nynorsk tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Occitan tort
* Old French tort (modern French tort)
* Portuguese torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong”)
* Spanish tuerto (“injury, offence”)
词源 2
From Middle English tort, torte (“contorted, crooked; twisted”), from Old French tort, torte (“crooked; twisted”), or from its etymon Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”): see further at etymology 1.
词源 3
A variant of tart.
词源 4
A variant of taut.
词源 5
Clipping of tortoise.
词源 6
Clipping of tortoiseshell.
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