The corpus record — Latin

tortilis

tortilis · adj

twisted

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

tortĭlis — Lewis & Short

tortĭlis, e, adj.torqueo,

I twisted, twined, winding (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. sinuosus): aurum, i. e. a golden chain, Verg. A. 7, 351: bucina, Ov. M. 1, 336: ansa, id. H. 16, 252: piscis, crooked, id. M. 13, 915: nervi, Luc. 6, 198: pampinus, Plin. 9, 51, 74, § 163.

Where it came from

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