torta

See also: torță

English

A typical torta

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Late Latin torta, from torta pānis 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

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.ta/

Adjective

torta

1. feminine singular of tort

Noun

torta f (plural tortes)

1. twisting
2. turn, bend

   Simulava que estava borratxo i marxava fent tortes cap a casa.

   He pretended he was drunk and went off towards home making twists and turns.

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.

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Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

Further reading

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

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Hungarian

torta (Őrség's Green Gold, The Cake of Hungary, 2016

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian torta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtortɒ]
• Rhymes: -tɒ
• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

Noun

torta (plural torták)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	torta	torták
accusative	tortát	tortákat
dative	tortának	tortáknak
instrumental	tortával	tortákkal
causal-final	tortáért	tortákért
translative	tortává	tortákká
terminative	tortáig	tortákig
essive-formal	tortaként	tortákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tortában	tortákban
superessive	tortán	tortákon
adessive	tortánál	tortáknál
illative	tortába	tortákba
sublative	tortára	tortákra
allative	tortához	tortákhoz
elative	tortából	tortákból
delative	tortáról	tortákról
ablative	tortától	tortáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tortáé	tortáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tortáéi	tortákéi

Possessive forms of torta
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tortám	tortáim
2nd person sing.	tortád	tortáid
3rd person sing.	tortája	tortái
1st person plural	tortánk	tortáink
2nd person plural	tortátok	tortáitok
3rd person plural	tortájuk	tortáik

Derived terms

Compound words

• csokoládétorta
• diótorta
• dobostorta
• sajttorta
• tortalapát

 

Expressions

• Fekete-erdő torta

 

Further reading

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

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/

Noun

torta (plural tortas)

1. cake

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Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.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

• tortaio
• tortiera
• tortino

 

Related terms

• torto
• torcere

Descendants

• → Greek: τούρτα (toúrta)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• 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): /ˈtɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

Participle

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

Adjective

torta

1. feminine singular of torto

Anagrams

• ratto, rotta, trota

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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

tortā

1. ablative feminine singular of tortus

References

• torta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• torta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• turta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈturta/

Noun

torta f (plural torte)

1. cake, tart, pie

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾtɐ/
• 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 pānis f sg (literally “a twist of bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. pie
2. tart

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tôːrta/
• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

Noun

tȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling то̑рта)

1. cake

Declension

Declension of torta

	singular	plural
nominative	tȏrta	torte
genitive	torte	tȍrātā / tȏrtī
dative	torti	tortama
accusative	tortu	torte
vocative	torto	torte
locative	torti	tortama
instrumental	tortom	tortama

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/, [ˈt̪oɾ.t̪a]
• 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

• torta de cumpleaños
• torta de queso (“cheesecake”) (Venezuela)
• torta marmolada
• tortazo
• tortear
• tortera
• tortero
• tortilla
• tortita
• zampatortas

 

Related terms

• torcer
• tuerto
• tuerta

Descendants

• → English: torta

Further reading

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

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Veps

Etymology

From the noun torv.

Verb

torta

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

Inflection

Inflection
1st infinitive	torta
present indic.	tordab
past indic.	torzi
	present indicative	past indicative	imperative
1st singular	tordan	torzin	—
2nd singular	tordad	torzid	torda
3rd singular	tordab	torzi	?
1st plural	tordam	torzim	torkam
2nd plural	tordat	torzit	torkat
3rd plural	tortas tordaba	torziba	?
sing. conneg.1	torda	tordand	torda
plur. conneg.	torkoi	tornugoi	torkoi
	present conditional	past conditional	potential
1st singular	tordaižin	tornuižin	tornen
2nd singular	tordaižid	tornuižid	torned
3rd singular	tordaiži	tornuiži	torneb
1st plural	tordaižim	tornuižim	tornem
2nd plural	tordaižit	tornuižit	tornet
3rd plural	tordaižiba	tornuižiba	torneba
connegative	tordaiži	tornuiži	torne
non-finite forms
1st infinitive	torta
2nd infinitive		3rd infinitive
inessive	tortes	inessive	tormas
instructive	torten	illative	tormaha
participles		elative	tormaspäi
present active	tordai	adessive	tormal
past active	tornu	abessive	tormat
past passive	tortud

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I., “трубить”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika, 2007