different between tort vs torq

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??t/
• (General American) enPR: tô(?)t, IPA^(key): /t?(?)?t/, /t??(?)t/
• Homophones: taught, taut (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English tort, from Old French tort, from Latin tortum, from tortus (“twisted”).

Noun

tort (plural torts)

1. An injury or wrong. [from the mid-13th c.]
2. (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. [from the later 16th c.]
3. (law, only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts).

Synonyms

• (law: wrongful act): delict (Scottish law)

Derived terms

• cotortfeasor
• tortfeasance
• tortfeasor
• tortious
• tortiously

Related terms

Translations

See also

• de son tort
• tort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Dialectal variation of tart.

Adjective

tort (comparative more tort, superlative most tort)

1. Tart; sharp.

Etymology 3

Adjective

tort (comparative torter, superlative tortest)

1. (obsolete) Stretched tight; taut.
   • 1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Initial, Daemonic And Celestial Love

     Yet holds he them with tortest rein.

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

tort (plural torts)

1. (slang) A tortoise.

Etymology 5

Shortening.

Noun

tort (plural torts)

1. (slang) A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).

Anagrams

• ROTT, Rott, TRTO, Trot, trot

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin tortus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?t?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Adjective

tort (feminine torta, masculine plural torts, feminine plural tortes)

1. bent, twisted, crooked, askew, wonky

Derived terms

• a tort i a dret

Related terms

• tòrcer
• tortura

Further reading

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

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Torte.

Noun

tort (genitive tordi, partitive torti)

1. large cake; cream cake, gateau

   Synonyms: kook, keeks

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French tort, from Latin tortum, substantive use of tortus, the past participle of torque? (“twist, turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tort m (plural torts)

1. fault

2. wrong, error

   Je regrette, vous avez tort. I'm afraid you are mistaken.

   Nous avons fait notre choix, à tort ou à raison. We have made our choice, rightly or wrongly.

   • ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tordre
• torture
• tourte

Further reading

• “tort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• trot

Hungarian

Etymology

tor +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tort]
• Hyphenation: tort

Noun

tort

1. accusative singular of tor

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French tort, from Latin tortum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?rt/

Noun

tort (plural tortes)

1. (rare, especially law) tort (wrong)

Descendants

• English: tort
• Scots: tort

References

• “tort, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French tort, from Latin tortum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

tort

1. (law) offense against someone, an insult or inconvenience caused to someone

Usage notes

Only used in the legal phrase tort og svie.

Related terms

• tortur

References

• “tort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tort

1. supine of tora and tore

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tortum, substantive use of tortus, the past participle of torque? (“twist, turn”).

Noun

tort m (oblique plural torz or tortz, nominative singular torz or tortz, nominative plural tort)

1. wrong; misdeed (something considered wrong)

Derived terms

• torcious

Related terms

• tordre

Descendants

• French: tort
• ? Middle English: tort
  • English: tort
  • Scots: tort

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tortum, substantive use of tortus, the past participle of torque? (“twist, turn”).

Noun

tort m (oblique plural tortz, nominative singular tortz, nominative plural tort)

1. wrong (immoral act)
2. error; mistake

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “torqu?re”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 1010

Polish

Etymology

From German Torte, from Italian torta, from Late Latin torta, from the expression torta panis (“twisted bread”), from the feminine of Latin tortus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?rt/

Noun

tort m inan (diminutive torcik)

1. torte (type of cake)
2. birthday cake

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) tortownica
• (adjective) tortowy

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin tortus.

Noun

tort n (plural torturi)

1. thread (spun and made of hemp)
2. quantity of spun threads

Declension

Related terms

• toarce

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Torte.

Alternative forms

• tort?

Noun

tort n (plural torturi)

1. cake

Declension

See also

• turt?, pr?jitur?

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tort

1. tart
2. cake

Inflection

References

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??(?)k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Homophones: torc, torque, talk ('talk' in non-rhotic accents only)

Noun

torq (plural torqs)

1. Alternative spelling of torque