different between torment vs traumatic

English

Etymology

From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?t??(?)m?nt/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /t??(?)?m?nt/

Noun

torment (countable and uncountable, plural torments)

1. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
2. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
3. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

   He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.

   • They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:pain

Derived terms

• tormentous

Translations

Verb

torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past and past participle tormented)

1. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

   The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.

   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:

     Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.

Derived terms

• tormentor

Translations

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment (plural torments)

1. torment (suffering, pain)

Descendants

• English: torment

Middle French

Alternative forms

• tourment

Etymology

From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment m (plural torments)

1. torment; suffering; anguish

Old French

Alternative forms

• turment

Etymology

From Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment m (oblique plural tormenz or tormentz, nominative singular tormenz or tormentz, nominative plural torment)

1. torture
2. (figuratively, by extension) suffering; torment

Descendants

• Middle English: torment (borrowing)
  • English: torment
• Middle French: torment, tourment
  • French: tourment

References

• “tourment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment m (nominative singular torments)

1. suffering; torment

Descendants

• Catalan: turment
• Occitan: torment

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????mæt?k/

Etymology 1

From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek ??????????? (traumatikós), from ?????? (traûma).

Adjective

traumatic (comparative more traumatic, superlative most traumatic)

1. Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
   • 2011, September 18, Don Thompson and Ken Ritter, “Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact”, Associated Press:

     "I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department […] . "It was traumatic."

2. (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Coxe to this entry?)

3. (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wiseman to this entry?)

4. Produced by wounds.

   traumatic tetanus

Antonyms

• non-traumatic
• nontraumatic
• untraumatic

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the Latin [medic?mentum] traumaticum, from traumaticus.

Noun

traumatic (plural traumatics)

1. (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

Interlingua

Adjective

traumatic (comparative plus traumatic, superlative le plus traumatic)

1. traumatic (pertaining to trauma)

Related terms

• trauma

Romanian

Etymology

From French traumatique, from Latin traumaticus.

Adjective

traumatic m or n (feminine singular traumatic?, masculine plural traumatici, feminine and neuter plural traumatice)

1. traumatic

Declension