different between pancake vs tortilla

English

Etymology

From Middle English pancake, equivalent to pan +? cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

Compare Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”), German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn.ke?k/, /?pæ?.ke?k/

Noun

pancake (plural pancakes)

1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
2. A U.S. style thicker batter cake fried in a pan.
3. (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
4. (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
5. Anything very thin and flat.
   • 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists

     Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]

6. Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
   • 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages p. 1200

     &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.

7. (film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

Synonyms

• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe/crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
2. (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
3. (transitive) To flatten violently.

See also

• blintz
• okonomiyaki
• Pan-Cake
• waffle

Anagrams

• cakepan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan.k?k/

Noun

pancake m (plural pancakes)

1. pancake

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ponkake, pankake, panne cake

Etymology

From panne (“pan”) +? cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?panka?k(?)/

Noun

pancake

1. pancake (kind of fried cake)

Descendants

• English: pancake
• Scots: pancake

References

• “panne-c?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Portuguese

Noun

pancake f (plural pancakes)

1. Dated form of panqueca.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???tij?/, /t???ti.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t???ti.?/, /t???tij?/, [t???t?ij?]
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

tortilla (plural tortillas)

1. (Mexican cuisine) A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour. In Mexican cuisine they are often served with a filling or topping such as frijoles "beans", carne "meat", salsa "sauce", sour cream and cheese; in the latter case they are called quesadillas.
   • 2001, Rafaela Castro, Chicano Folklore, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 230:

     From this dough are shaped small round forms, or a tortilla press can be used to more easily flatten many perfectly round, thin cakes. Tortilla machines, found all over Mexico and the Southwest, can produce hundreds of tortillas per hour.

2. (Spanish cuisine) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions.
   • 2004, The Student Cookbook, Hachette UK (?ISBN)

     An authentic Spanish tortilla is traditionally made with just eggs, potatoes, onions, salt and pepper, but this version contains sliced red and green peppers for a bit of extra colour and flavour.

Translations

Further reading

• tortilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• littoral

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tortil??/, [?t?o?rt?il??]
• Rhymes: -ortil??
• Syllabification: tor?til?la

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Noun

tortilla

1. tortilla
2. a tortilla-based dish; a burrito

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

tortilla

1. adessive singular of tortti

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.ti.ja/

Verb

tortilla

1. third-person singular past historic of tortiller

Anagrams

• littoral

Galician

Etymology

From Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to??ti?a/

Noun

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. Spanish omelette, tortilla
2. omelette
3. (rare) tortilla

Synonyms

• (Spanish omelette) tortilla de patacas, tortilla española
• (omelette) tortilla francesa
• (tortilla) tortilla de fariña de trigo, tortilla de fariña, tortilla de trigo

Related terms

• tortillera
• tortillería

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?r?t?il?a/

Noun

tortilla f

1. tortilla (flat round bread)
2. Spanish omelette

Declension

Further reading

• tortilla in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tortilla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish tortiella, diminutive of torta (“round flatbread”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) Spanish omelette, tortilla

   Synonyms: (Spain) tortilla de patatas, (Hispanic America, Canary Islands) tortilla de papas, tortilla española

2. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) omelette

   Synonym: tortilla francesa

3. (Mexico and Central America) tortilla

   Synonyms: tortilla de harina de trigo, tortilla de harina, tortilla de trigo

Related terms

• tortillera
• tortillería

Further reading

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