dolorio

Updated: May 12, 2025

Here, we lost the Trades that had blown us so far on our route, entering into the second great belt of calms met with in the Atlantic to perplex the mariner when essaying to pass either to the north or south of the equator a zone of torpidity, known popularly under the name of the "Doldrums," which was originally derived most probably from the old Portuguese phrase dolorio, "tormenting."

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - On Board the Esmeralda: Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story