torta

Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and tart.

torta (plural tortas)

1. (US) A sandwich, served either hot or cold, on an oblong white sandwich roll, derived from Mexican cuisine
2. A Philippine omelette of ground meat and potatoes.
3. A flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

• Ratto, Tatro, ottar, rotta, tarot, tator, torat, troat

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.ta/

torta

1. feminine singular of tort

torta f (plural tortes)

1. twisting
2. turn, bend

   Simulava que estava borratxo i marxava fent tortes cap a casa.

   He pretended he was drunk and went off towards home making twists and turns.

3. A circuitous route, a roundabout way.
4. (archaic) torch

• (twisting): torsió
• (roundabout way): marrada
• (torch): torxa

• “torta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”).

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

• “torta” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from Italian torta.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtortɒ]
• Rhymes: -tɒ
• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

torta (plural torták)

1. torte, cake, gateau (a dense dessert richly decorated and filled with cream or jam)

• torta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Late Latin torta, from the expression torta pānis f sg (literally “a twist of bread”), from the feminine of the adjective tortus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/

torta (plural tortas)

1. cake

From Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”), which yielded tòrta in Italian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/
• Rhymes: -orta
• Hyphenation: tór‧ta

torta f (plural torte)

1. pie, tart, cake or similar
2. (heraldry) roundel (of a tincture; see bisante)

• tortaio
• torta pasqualina
• tortello, tortellino
• tortiera
• tortino

• torto
• torcere

• → German: Torte, Tarte; Turte
  • → Czech: dort
  • → English: torte
  • → Estonian: tort
  • → Hungarian: torta
  • → Japanese: トルテ (torute)
  • → Macedonian: торта (torta)
  • → Polish: tort
  • → Romanian: tort
  • → Russian: торт (tort), тортъ (tort)
    • → Armenian: տորթ (tortʿ)
    • → Kazakh: торт (tort)
    • → Yakut: торт (tort)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: torta / торта
  • → Ukrainian: торт (tort)
• → Turkish: turta

Back-formation from torto, past participle of torcere (“to twist”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

torta f (plural torte)

1. (rare) the act of twisting
2. (archaic) the result of twisting

   Synonyms: torcitura, piegatura

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

• ratto, rotta, trota

From torta pānis f sg (literally “a roll of bread”); either from the feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”) that describes the form of the bread (torta [forma]), or from Latin turta (“type of pastry”).

torta f (genitive tortae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) roll of bread (usually made with unsifted flour)
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Chronicles 16:3:

     tortam panis et partem assae carnis bubulae et frixam oleo similam

First-declension noun.

torta

1. inflection of tortus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

tortā

1. ablative feminine singular of tortus

• “torta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• torta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• turta

• IPA^(key): /ˈturta/

torta f (plural torte)

1. cake, tart, pie

• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

torta

1. feminine singular of torto

• torcer

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”).

torta f (plural tortas)

1. (Brazil) pie, tart

   Synonym: (Portugal) tarte

2. (Portugal) Swiss roll

   Synonyms: (Brazil) garibáldi, (Brazil) rocambole

From German Torte.

• IPA^(key): /tôːrta/
• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

tȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling то̑рта)

1. cake

• "torta" in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”), which actually yielded tuerta in Spanish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/ [ˈt̪oɾ.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: tor‧ta

torta f (plural tortas)

1. (Latin America) cake

   Synonym: pastel

2. tart, pie
3. (Mexico, Guatemala) sandwich on a roll

   Synonyms: bocadillo, emparedado, sándwich

4. (Spain) flatbread
5. (Spain, colloquial) slap in the face, cuff on the ear

   Synonyms: bofetada, bofetón, cachetada, sopapo

6. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

7. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory, Rioplatense) dyke, lez (a lesbian)

• → English: torta

• “torta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• tarot, trató, trato, trotá, trota

• tolta

Unknown. Cognate with synonymous Norwegian turt, tort, turta, torta, turte, torte, Danish turt.

torta c

1. alpine sow-thistle (Cicerbita alpina)

• torta in Svensk ordbok.

Borrowed from Spanish torta (“cake”). Compare Cebuano torta (“cupcake”) and English tart.

• Hyphenation: tor‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/, [ˈtoɾ.tɐ]

torta (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇ᜔ᜆ)

1. torta (a type of egg omelette with various ingredients, especially eggplant)

• tortilya

• omelet

From the noun torv.

torta

1. to blow (trumpet, horn, etc.)

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “трубить”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika