tortuoso

Borrowed from Latin tortuōsus.

• IPA^(key): /tor.tuˈo.zo/, (traditional) /tor.tuˈo.so/
• Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
• Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧ó‧so

tortuoso (feminine tortuosa, masculine plural tortuosi, feminine plural tortuose)

1. winding, crooked, twisty, tortuous (road, etc.)
2. convoluted, devious (reasoning, explanation, etc.)

• tortuosamente
• tortuosità

• torcere
• torto

tortuōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tortuōsus

Borrowed from Latin tortuōsus.

• Rhymes: -ozu

tortuoso (feminine tortuosa, masculine plural tortuosos, feminine plural tortuosas, metaphonic)

1. tortuous (having many turns and twists)

• torcer
• torto

Borrowed from Latin tortuōsus (“coiled, winding”), from tortus (“twisted, twined”).

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtwoso/ [t̪oɾˈt̪wo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: tor‧tuo‧so

tortuoso (feminine tortuosa, masculine plural tortuosos, feminine plural tortuosas)

1. winding, tortuous

• “tortuoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014