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1 tortuōsus
tortuōsus adj. [2 tortus], full of crooks, coiled, winding, tortuous: alvus: amnis, L.—Fig., entangled, involved, complicated, confused: genus disputandi: visa quaedam tortuosa et obscura.* * *tortuosa, tortuosum ADJtwisting, tortuous -
2 tortuosus
tortŭōsus, a, um, adj. [tortus].I. A.Lit.:B.est autem (alvus) multiplex et tortuosa,
Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136:loca,
id. ib. 2, 57, 144:serrula,
id. Clu. 64, 180:per tortuosi amnis sinus flexusque,
Liv. 27, 47, 10:serpens,
Vulg. Isa. 27, 1: coluber, id. Job, 26, 13.— Comp.:quiddam tortuosius,
Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255.—Trop., entangled, involved, complicated, confused:* II.tortuosum genus disputandi,
Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 98:visa quaedam tortuosa et obscura,
id. Div. 2, 63, 129:ingenium,
id. Lael. 18, 65:res anxiae et tortuosae,
Gell. 13, 11, 4.— Sup.:quis aperit tortuosissimam istam et implicatissimam nodositatem?
Aug. Conf. 2, 10. —Painful, torturing:rusci radix bibitur in tortuosiore urinā,
i. e. in strangury, Plin. 21, 27, 100, § 173.—
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