contortion

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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N T AO1 R SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *terkw- Proto-Italic *torkweō Latin torqueō Latin contorqueō Latin contortus Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin contortiōder. Middle French contortionder. English contortion Derived from Middle French contortion, from Latin contortiō.

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: криве́не (krivéne) — the act of contorting
• Bulgarian: изкривяване (izkrivjavane) — the act of contorting
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭彎 /扭弯 (niǔwān) — the act of contorting
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭歪 (niǔwāi) — the act of contorting
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭曲 (niǔqū) — the act of contorting
• Dutch: verwringing — the act of contorting
• Dutch: verrekking — the act of contorting
• Dutch: kronkeling — the act of contorting
• Dutch: bochtenwerk — the act of contorting
• Irish: freangadh — the act of contorting
• Manx: anchummey — the act of contorting
• Polish: wykręcenie — the act of contorting
• Portuguese: contorção — the act of contorting
• Russian: искривле́ние (iskrivlénije) — the act of contorting
• Russian: искаже́ние (iskažénije) — the act of contorting
• Spanish: contorsión — the act of contorting
• Ukrainian: викривлення (vykryvlennja) — the act of contorting
• Ukrainian: перекручення (perekručennja) — the act of contorting
• Ukrainian: спотворення (spotvorennja) — the act of contorting
• Chinese Mandarin: 柔身術 /柔身术 (róushēnshù) — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility
• Chinese Mandarin: 軟功 /软功 (ruǎngōng) — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility
• French: contorsion — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility
• German: Kontorsion — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility
• Polish: kontorsja — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility
• Portuguese: contorcionismo — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility
• Russian: конто́рсия (kontórsija) — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility
• Spanish: contorsión — performance art using skills of extreme physical flexibility