different between torta vs bread

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Late Latin torta, from torta p?nis f sg (literally “a twist of bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”). Cognate to tart. Doublet of torte.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?t?r.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t??.ta/

Adjective

torta

1. feminine singular of tort

Noun

torta f (plural tortes)

1. twisting
2. turn, bend

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

Synonyms

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

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Late Latin torta, from the expression torta p?nis f sg (literally “a twist of bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

Pronunciation

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian torta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tort?]
• Rhymes: -t?
• Hyphenation: tor?ta

Noun

torta (plural torták)

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

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tor.ta/

Noun

torta (plural tortas)

1. cake

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tor.ta/
• Rhymes: -orta
• Hyphenation: tór?ta

Noun

torta f (plural torte)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• torto
• torcere

Descendants

• ? Greek: ?????? (toúrta)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r.ta/
• Rhymes: -?rta
• Hyphenation: tòr?ta

Noun

torta f (plural torte)

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

   Synonyms: torcitura, piegatura

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r.ta/
• Rhymes: -?rta
• Hyphenation: tòr?ta

Participle

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

Adjective

torta

1. feminine singular of torto

Anagrams

• ratto, rotta, trota

Latin

Participle

torta

1. inflection of tortus:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative neuter plural
   3. accusative neuter plural
   4. vocative feminine singular
   5. vocative neuter plural

Participle

tort?

1. ablative feminine singular of tortus

References

• 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, 1883–1887)

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• turta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?turta/

Noun

torta f (plural torte)

1. cake, tart, pie

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t??t?/
• Hyphenation: tor?ta

Etymology 1

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

Adjective

torta

1. feminine singular of torto

Related terms

• torcer

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese, from Late Latin torta, from the expression torta p?nis f sg (literally “a twist of bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. pie
2. tart

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tô?rta/
• Hyphenation: tor?ta

Noun

t?rta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. cake

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin torta (possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *turta; compare Romanian turt?, French tourte, Italian torta, Romansch turta, Sardinian turta; Latin torta produced the expected diphthongized tuerta in Spanish), from torta p?nis f sg (literally “a twist of bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?ta/, [?t?o?.t?a]
• Hyphenation: tor?ta

Noun

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• torcer
• tuerto
• tuerta

Descendants

• ? English: torta

Further reading

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

References

Veps

Etymology

From the noun torv.

Verb

torta

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

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

Wikibooks

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/, /b?e?d/
• (UK, US) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: bred

Etymology 1

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English br?ad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braud? (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erw-, *b?rew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?era- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two.

Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”).

Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).

Noun

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

1. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
3. (slang, US) Money.
4. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Usage notes

• loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.

Synonyms

• (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: brede
• ? Fiji Hindi: bareed

Translations

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

Derived terms

• breaded (adjective)
• breading (noun)

Translations

See also

• loaf

Etymology 2

From Middle English brede, from Old English br?du (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braid?? (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

Derived terms

• waybread

Etymology 3

From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijan? (“to make broad, broaden”).

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.

References

Etymology 4

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, bre?dan (“to braid”).

Alternative forms

• breathe, brede

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Anagrams

• Bader, Beard, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, debar

Old English

Alternative forms

• br?od

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braud?, whence also Old Frisian br?d (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon br?d (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German br?t (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bræ???d/

Noun

br?ad n (nominative plural br?adru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)

1. bit, piece, morsel, crumb
2. bread (foodstuff)

Declension

Synonyms

• (bread): hl?f

Derived terms

• b?obr?ad
• picgbr?ad

Descendants

• Middle English: bred, brede, breed, brid, bread, bræd
  • English: bread
    • Sranan Tongo: brede
    • ? Fiji Hindi: bareed
  • Scots: breid
  • Yola: breed

Spanish

Verb

bread

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.