The story
- Latin · derived fromtormentum“something operated by twisting”
- Old French · derived fromtorment
- Middle English · inherited fromtorment
- English todaytorment
From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”). Compare native English bale (“suffering, woe, torment”) and English woe.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.