tort

Plural: torts

Noun

(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
An injury or wrong.
Clipping of tortoise.
Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings; a tortie”).

Adj

Twisted.
Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”)
Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”).
Of a boat: watertight.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), from Old French tort (“misdeed, wrong”) (modern French tort (“an error, wrong; a fault”)), from Medieval Latin tortum (“injustice, wrong”), a noun use of a neuter singular participle form of Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”), the perfect passive participle of torqueō (“to bend or twist awry, distort”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
Cognates
* Galician torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong, tort”)
* Italian torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) injustice, wrong”)
* Norwegian Bokmål tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Norwegian Nynorsk tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Occitan tort
* Old French tort (modern French tort)
* Portuguese torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong”)
* Spanish tuerto (“injury, offence”)

Synonyms

civil wrong, delict, tart, taut

Scrabble Score: 4

tort is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tort is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tort is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

tort is a valid Words With Friends word