TORMENTIL

Definition: TORMENTIL

TORMENTIL

Noun

1. A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Tormentil \Tor"men*til\, noun. [French expression tormentille; compare to Pr., It., New Latin tormentilla, Spanish tormentila; all from Latin tormentum pain. So called because it is said to allay pain. See Torment.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: TORMENTIL

English words defined with "TORMENTIL": Septfoil. (references)

Non-English Usage: "TORMENTIL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (tormentil).

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Commercial Usage: TORMENTIL

Domain	Title
Books	Tormentil and Bleached Bones (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TORMENTIL

"TORMENTIL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "TORMENTIL" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TORMENTIL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
tormentil	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TORMENTIL

Language		Translations for "TORMENTIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		очеболец. (various references)

Danish		tormentil (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil), opret potentil (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil). (various references)

Dutch		tormentil (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil). (various references)

Finnish		rätvänä (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil). (various references)

French		tormentille commune (common tormentil). (various references)

German		Tormentill (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil), Waldfingerkraut (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil), Blutwurz (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil). (various references)

Greek		πεντάφυλλον το όρθιον (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil). (various references)

Italian		tormentilla (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil). (various references)

Manx		skeag leeanagh, crammelt beg. (various references)

Pig Latin		ormentiltay

Scottish		leamnacht. (various references)

Swedish		blodrot (blood root, blood wort, common tormentil). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TORMENTIL

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Potentilla erecta, Tormentilla erecta. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: TORMENTIL

Derivations
	Words beginning with "TORMENTIL": tormentils. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TORMENTIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: trotline.
	-2 letters: motlier, mottler, omitter, retinol, torment, tortile, triolet, tritone.
	-3 letters: entoil, intort, limner, linter, litten, litter, loiter, lomein, loment, melton, mentor, merino, merlin, merlon, merlot, milter, minter, mitten, moiler, moline, molten, molter, motile, mottle, neroli, norite, oilmen, orient, remint, retint, rotten, tilter, tinter, titmen, toiler, toilet, tonier, tonlet, torten, triton.
	-4 letters: elint, eloin.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: tormentils.
	+3 letters: metropolitan.
	+4 letters: importunately, metropolitans, permutational, restimulation, terminational.
	+5 letters: intervalometer, reimplantation, restimulations, retinoblastoma, scintillometer, tatterdemalion, thermalization, trihalomethane, ultimogeniture, ultramodernist.
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