torta

See also: torță

English

A typical torta

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and tart.

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): /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

   Synonym: torsió

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

   Synonym: marrada

4. (archaic) torch

   Synonym: torxa

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”).

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

Further reading

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

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’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Interlingua

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/

Noun

torta (plural tortas)

1. cake

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”), which yielded tòrta in Italian.

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
• torta pasqualina
• tortello, tortellino
• tortiera
• tortino

Related terms

• torto
• torcere

Descendants

• → German: Torte, Tarte; Turte
  • → Czech: dort
  • → English: torte
  • → Estonian: tort
  • → Hungarian: torta
  • → Japanese: トルテ (torute)
  • → Macedonian: торта (torta)
  • → Polish: tort
  • → Romanian: tort
  • → Russian: торт (tort), тортъ (tort)
    • → Armenian: տորթ (tortʿ)
    • → Kazakh: торт (tort)
    • → Yakut: торт (tort)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: torta / торта
  • → Ukrainian: торт (tort)
• → Turkish: turta

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 corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Participle

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

Adjective

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

Anagrams

• ratto, rotta, trota

Latin

Etymology

From torta pānis f sg (literally “a roll of bread”); either from the feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”) that describes the form of the bread (torta [forma]), or from Latin turta (“type of pastry”).

Noun

torta f (genitive tortae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) roll of bread (usually made with unsifted flour)
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Chronicles 16:3:

     tortam panis et partem assae carnis bubulae et frixam oleo similam

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	torta	tortae
Genitive	tortae	tortārum
Dative	tortae	tortīs
Accusative	tortam	tortās
Ablative	tortā	tortīs
Vocative	torta	tortae

Participle

torta

1. inflection of tortus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

tortā

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• turta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈturta/

Noun

torta f (plural torte)

1. cake, tart, pie

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈtɔh.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈtɔh.tɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈtɔχ.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɻ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.tɐ/

• 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 Galician-Portuguese, from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”).

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. (Brazil) pie, tart

   Synonym: (Portugal) tarte

2. (Portugal) Swiss roll

   Synonyms: (Brazil) garibáldi, (Brazil) rocambole

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Torte.

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

Further reading

• "torta" in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”), which actually yielded tuerta in Spanish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/ [ˈt̪oɾ.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: 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

7. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory, Rioplatense) dyke, lez (a lesbian)

Derived terms

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

 

Related terms

• torcer
• tuerta
• tuerto

 

Descendants

• → English: torta

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tarot, trató, trato, trotá, trota

Swedish

Alternative forms

• tolta

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate with synonymous Norwegian turt, tort, turta, torta, turte, torte, Danish turt.

Noun

torta c

1. alpine sow-thistle (Cicerbita alpina)

Declension

Declension of torta
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	torta	tortan	tortor	tortorna
Genitive	tortas	tortans	tortors	tortornas

Further reading

• torta in Svensk ordbok.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torta (“cake”). Compare Cebuano torta (“cupcake”) and English tart.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tor‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/, [ˈtoɾ.tɐ]

Noun

torta (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇ᜔ᜆ)

1. torta (a type of egg omelette with various ingredients, especially eggplant)

Derived terms

• tortahan
• tortahin
• tortang alamang
• tortang giniling
• tortang gulay
• tortang hipon
• tortang kalabasa
• tortang kamote
• tortang okra
• tortang talong

 

Related terms

• tortilya

See also

• omelet

Veps

Etymology

From the noun torv.

Verb

torta

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

Inflection

Inflection of torta (inflection type 9/kogota)
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	torkaha
1st plural	tordam	torzim	torkam
2nd plural	tordat	torzit	torkat
3rd plural	tortas tordaba	torziba	torkaha
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. (2007), “трубить”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika