different between kuchen vs torte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kuchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kuk?n/

Noun

kuchen (uncountable)

1. Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch cuchen, coechen, cochen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), likely of onomatopoeic origin. Akin to English cough, German keuchen.

Pronunciation

Verb

kuchen

1. to give out a dry and brief cough

Inflection

Noun

kuchen

1. Plural form of kuch

Spanish

Etymology

From German Kuchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kuxen/, [?ku.x?n]

Noun

kuchen m (plural kúchenes)

1. cake, especially made with fruit

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??(?)t/
• Homophones: tort, taught, taut

Noun

torte (plural tortes)

1. A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).

Translations

Anagrams

• Otter, Treto, ortet, otter, toret, toter

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Late Latin torta.

Noun

torte f (plural tortes)

1. pie, tart

Estonian

Noun

torte

1. partitive plural of tort

Friulian

Etymology

From a Late Latin torta (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *turta), from the expression torta panis ("twisted bread"), from the feminine of Latin tortus. Compare Italian torta, Venetian torta, Romansch turta, tuorta, French tourte, Romanian turt?. Cf. also tuart, from Latin tortus.

Noun

torte f (plural tortis)

1. cake, pie, tart, etc.

Related terms

• tuart
• stuarzi

German

Verb

torte

1. inflection of torten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tor.te/, [?t?or?t?e]
• Rhymes: -orte
• Hyphenation: tór?te

Noun

torte f pl

1. plural of torta

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r.te/, [?t??r?t?e]
• Rhymes: -?rte
• Hyphenation: tòr?te

Adjective

torte

1. feminine plural of torto

Verb

torte

1. feminine plural of the past participle of torcere

Anagrams

• retto, rotte, tetro, trote

Latin

Participle

torte

1. vocative masculine singular of tortus

References

• torte in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• torte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette