different between tortilla vs tacos

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.

English

Noun

tacos

1. plural of taco

Verb

tacos

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taco

Anagrams

• Ascot, Casto, Coats, Costa, Cotas, Sacto, Tosca, ascot, catso, coast, coats, costa, octas, scato-, scoat

Spanish

Noun

tacos m

1. plural of taco