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tort

noun
/tɔːt/UK/tɔɹt/US

Etymology

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”)

  1. derived from *terkʷ-✻ — “to spin; to turn”
  2. derived from tortus — “crooked; twisted”
  3. derived from tortum — “injustice, wrong”
  4. derived from tort — “misdeed, wrong”
  5. inherited from tort — “(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”

Definitions

  1. A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated…

    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.

  2. An injury or wrong.

    • 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.
    • For no vvild beaſts ſhould do them any torte / There or abroad, ne vvould his maieſtye / Vſe them but vvell, vvith gracious clemencye, / As vvhome he knevv to him both faſt and true; […]

  3. Twisted.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting

      Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”)

    2. Synonym of taut (“stretched tight

      Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”).

      • 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.

    3. Of a boat

      Of a boat: watertight.

    4. Clipping of tortoise.

    5. Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur…

      Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings; a tortie”).

The neighborhood

Derived

quasi-tort, tort law, torts

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tort. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tort. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at tort

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA