torta

See also: torță

English

A typical torta

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Late Latin torta, from torta panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”). Cognate to 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

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Catalan

Adjective

torta

1. feminine singular of tort

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin torta, from the expression torta panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian torta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

torta (plural torták)

1. torte, cake, gateau

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

 

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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 panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

Pronunciation

• 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

• tortiera
• tortino
• τούρτα f (toúrta)

Related terms

• torto
• torcere

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

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective torto.

Anagrams

• ratto, rotta, trota

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) torta

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

Participle

(deprecated template usage) 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)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾtɐ/

Etymology 1

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

Adjective

torta

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective torto.

Related terms

• torcer

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin torta, from the expression torta panis (“twisted 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 panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/ [ˈt̪oɾ.t̪a]

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. (Latin America) cake
2. tart, pie
3. (Mexico, Guatemala) sandwich on a roll
4. (Spain) flatbread
5. (Spain, colloquial) slap in the face, cuff on the ear
6. (colloquial) drunkenness

Synonyms

• (sandwich): bocadillo, emparedado, sándwich
• (slap): bofetada, bofetón, cachetada, sopapo
• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.

Derived terms

• torta de queso (“cheesecake”) (Venezuela)
• 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.)

References

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