torturer

English

Etymology

From torture +‎ -er.

Noun

torturer (plural torturers)

1. Someone who tortures.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signature F3, recto:

     I play the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […]

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 102:

     My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.

   • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:

     The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.

Translations

one who tortures

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جَلَّاد m (jallād)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: мучы́цель m (mučýcjelʹ), катава́льнік m (kataválʹnik), кат m (kat)
• Bulgarian: мъчи́тел (bg) m (mǎčítel)
• Catalan: torturador m
• Chinese:

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• Czech: mučitel m
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• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kiduttaja (fi)
• French: tortionnaire (fr) m, bourreau (fr) m
• Galician: torturador m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Folterknecht (de) m
• Greek: βασανιστής (el) m (vasanistís), βασανίστρια (el) f (vasanístria)

  Ancient: βασανιστής m (basanistḗs)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: सितमगर (hi) m (sitamgar)
• Hungarian: kínzó (hu)
• Italian: aguzzino (it) m, seviziatore (it) m, torturatore (it) m, tormentatore (it) m, tormentatrice f
• Latin: tortor m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ма́чител m (máčitel), вади́душа m (vadíduša)
• Norwegian: torturist m
• Old English: pīnere m
• Polish: oprawca (pl) m, kat (pl) m
• Portuguese: torturador (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: пала́ч (ru) m (paláč), мучи́тель (ru) m (mučítelʹ), мучи́тельница (ru) f (mučítelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: му̀читељ m

  Roman: mùčitelj (sh) m

• Slovak: mučiteľ m
• Spanish: torturador m
• Swedish: torterare c
• Turkish: işkenceci (tr)
• Ukrainian: мучи́тель m (mučýtelʹ), кат (uk) m (kat)
• Volapük: toman (vo)

Danish

Noun

torturer c

1. indefinite plural of tortur

French

Etymology

From torture +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/

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Verb

torturer

1. to torture

Conjugation

Conjugation of torturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	torturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	torturant /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		torturé /tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	torture /tɔʁ.tyʁ/	tortures /tɔʁ.tyʁ/	torture /tɔʁ.tyʁ/	torturons /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɔ̃/	torturez /tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/	torturent /tɔʁ.tyʁ/
	imperfect	torturais /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/	torturais /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/	torturait /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/	torturions /tɔʁ.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	torturiez /tɔʁ.ty.ʁje/	torturaient /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	torturai /tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/	torturas /tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/	tortura /tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/	torturâmes /tɔʁ.ty.ʁam/	torturâtes /tɔʁ.ty.ʁat/	torturèrent /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	torturerai /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	tortureras /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	torturera /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	torturerons /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	torturerez /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	tortureront /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	torturerais /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	torturerais /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	torturerait /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	torturerions /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	tortureriez /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	tortureraient /tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	torture /tɔʁ.tyʁ/	tortures /tɔʁ.tyʁ/	torture /tɔʁ.tyʁ/	torturions /tɔʁ.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	torturiez /tɔʁ.ty.ʁje/	torturent /tɔʁ.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	torturasse /tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/	torturasses /tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/	torturât /tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/	torturassions /tɔʁ.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	torturassiez /tɔʁ.ty.ʁa.sje/	torturassent /tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	torture /tɔʁ.tyʁ/	—	torturons /tɔʁ.ty.ʁɔ̃/	torturez /tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• tortureur

Further reading

• “torturer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

torturer

1. imperative of torturere