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.)

   Synonyms: diritto, rettilineo

2. convoluted, devious (reasoning, explanation, etc.)

   Antonyms: chiaro, schietto, franco

• tortuoso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• tortuoso in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• tortuoso in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• tortuóso in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• tortüóso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tor.tuˈoː.soː/, [t̪ɔrt̪uˈoːs̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tor.tuˈo.so/, [t̪ort̪uˈɔːs̬o]

tortuōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tortuōsus

Borrowed from Latin tortuōsus.

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: tor‧tu‧o‧so

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

1. tortuous (having many turns and twists)

• “tortuoso” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “tortuoso” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “tortuoso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tortuoso” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “tortuoso” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “tortuoso” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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