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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

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