Etymology

tortile

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Today it means: Twisted, winding, contorted. Full definition →

Latin tortilis
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromtortilis
  2. English todaytortile

Borrowed from Latin tortilis, from the participle stem of torqueō (“twist, turn”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.