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torsion [torsion 词源字典]: torsion: see torment
[torsion etymology, torsion origin, 英语词源]
conservatorship (n.): 1640s, from conservator + -ship.
dictatorship (n.): 1580s, from dictator + -ship.
editorship (n.): 1769, from editor + -ship.
preceptorship (n.): 1764, from preceptor + -ship.
torsion (n.): early 15c., "wringing pain in the bowels," from Old French torsion "colic" (early 14c.), from Late Latin torsionem (nominative torsio) "a wringing or gripping," from Latin tortionem (nominative tortio) "torture, torment," noun of action from past participle stem of torquere "to twist, distort, torture" (see torque (n.)). Meaning "act or effect of twisting as by opposing forces" is first recorded 1540s.
torso (n.): 1797, from Italian torso "trunk of a statue," originally "stalk, stump," from Vulgar Latin *tursus, from Latin thyrsus "stalk, stem," from Greek thyrsos (see thyrsus).