tortilla

English

flour tortillas

Spanish omelette

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɔːˈtɪjə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɹˈti.ə/, /tɔɹˈtijə/, [tɔɹˈtʰijə]
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

tortilla (plural tortillas)

1. (Mexico) 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.
2. (Spain) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions

Translations

a flat round bread

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨西哥薄餅, 墨西哥薄饼 (Mòxīgē báobǐng)

• Estonian: tortilla (et)
• Faroese: tortilla, tortilla við mais
• Finnish: tortilla (fi)
• Galician: tortilla de fariña de trigo f, tortilla de fariña f, tortilla de trigo f
• German: Tortilla (de) f
• Guerrero Amuzgo: cha
• Interlingua: tortilla
• Isthmus Zapotec: gueta
• Japanese: トルティーヤ (torutīya)
• Maltese: tortilla f

• Nahuatl:

  Classical: tlaxcalli

  Highland Puebla: taxcal

  Mecayapan: táxcal

  Northern Puebla: tlaxcali

• Navajo: náneeskaadí
• Portuguese: tortilha (pt) f
• Russian: торти́лья (ru) m (tortílʹja) (tortilia) f
• Spanish: tortilla de harina de trigo f, tortilla de harina f, tortilla de trigo f, tortilla (es) f
• Swedish: tortilla (sv) c, tortillabröd n
• Tz'utujil: aawaay, way
• Tzotzil: vaj
• Yucatec Maya: waaj

Spanish omelette — see Spanish omelette

Anagrams

• littoral

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Finnish

Noun

tortilla

1. tortilla

Declension

Inflection of tortilla (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		tortilla	tortillat
genitive		tortillan	tortilloiden tortilloitten tortillojen
partitive		tortillaa	tortilloita tortilloja
illative		tortillaan	tortilloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tortilla	tortillat
accusative	nom.	tortilla	tortillat
	gen.	tortillan
genitive		tortillan	tortilloiden tortilloitten tortillojen tortillainrare
partitive		tortillaa	tortilloita tortilloja
inessive		tortillassa	tortilloissa
elative		tortillasta	tortilloista
illative		tortillaan	tortilloihin
adessive		tortillalla	tortilloilla
ablative		tortillalta	tortilloilta
allative		tortillalle	tortilloille
essive		tortillana	tortilloina
translative		tortillaksi	tortilloiksi
instructive		—	tortilloin
abessive		tortillatta	tortilloitta
comitative		—	tortilloineen

Noun

tortilla

1. adessive singular of tortti

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.ti.ja/

• Audio

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Verb

tortilla

1. third-person singular past historic of tortiller

Anagrams

• littoral

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Galician

Spanish omelette

Omelette

Etymology

From Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtiʎa/

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

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Spanish

Spanish omelette

Omelette

Tortilla (flour tortilla)

Etymology

From Old Spanish tortiella, diminutive of torta (“round flatbread”).

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /torˈtiʎa/, [t̪orˈt̪iʎa]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /torˈtiɟ͡ʝa/, [t̪orˈt̪iʝa]

Noun

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) Spanish omelette, tortilla
2. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) omelette
3. (Mexico and Central America) tortilla

Synonyms

• (Spanish omelette) tortilla de patatas (Spain), tortilla de papas (Hispanic America, Canary Islands), tortilla española
• (omelette) tortilla francesa
• (tortilla) 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.