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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

Verb

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of toss

Anagrams

• TSTO, stot, tots

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tostum, the neuter of tostus. Cognate with French tôt, Italian tosto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tost

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. second-person singular/plural present
   2. third-person singular present
   3. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s?t??/

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, nominative plural tostanna)

1. silence

   Proverb:

2. verbal noun of tost

Declension

Verb

tost (present analytic tostann, future analytic tostfaidh, verbal noun tost, past participle tosta)

1. (intransitive) be silent, become silent

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tost" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tost” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “tostaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “tost” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tost” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French toster.

Verb

tost

1. Alternative form of tosten

Etymology 2

A back-formation from tosten.

Alternative forms

• toste, toost

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

tost (plural tostes)

1. toast (bread that has been toasted)

Descendants

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

References

• “t?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Old French

Etymology

Possibly from Latin tot (“very”) + cito (“fast”), but more likely from Vulgar Latin *tostum, from the neuter of Latin tostus (“toasted”), later meaning "hotly, promptly" in Vulgar Latin. Cognate to Italian tosto, Occitan and Catalan tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. early
2. soon
3. quickly; straight away

Derived terms

Descendants

• French: tôt
• ? Old Portuguese: toste
  • Galician: toste
  • Portuguese: toste

References

• Bratchet, A. (1873) , “tot”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
• “chignon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tustus, from the same root as tóe. Several phonological peculiarities relating to the evolution of this term, such as irregular final -st (which should have become -s(s) /s/) and the initial consonant fluctuating between t- and s-, are probably due to contamination from its synonym, socht. This contamination intensified over time, giving birth to Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish forms like tocht and sosd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tost/

Noun

tost m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. silence

   Synonym: socht

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tost, tocht
  • Irish: tost
  • Scottish Gaelic: tost

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

From English toast, from Middle English tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

tost m inan

1. toast (toasted bread)

Declension

Further reading

• tost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• tosd

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???s?t?]

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, no plural)

1. silence

Mutation

References

• “tost” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Turkish

Etymology

From English toast.

Noun

tost (definite accusative tosdu, plural tostlar)

1. toast

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian toast

Noun

tost m (invariable)

1. toasted sandwich

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tostus.

Adjective

tost (feminine singular tost, plural tostion, equative tosted, comparative tostach, superlative tostaf)

1. ill
2. sore

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

tost m (uncountable)

1. toast

   Synonym: bara cras

Mutation