English

A typical torta

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

• tarot, troat

Galician

Noun

torta f ‎(plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian torta.^[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

torta ‎(plural torták)

1. torte, cake, gateau

Declension

Derived terms

References

1. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/

Noun

torta ‎(plural tortas)

1. cake

Italian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *torta, from the expression torta panis, from feminine of Latin tortus.

Noun

torta f ‎(plural torte)

1. pie, tart, cake or similar
2. (heraldry) roundel (of a tincture; see bisante)

Derived terms

• tortalapát
• tortiera
• tortino

Etymology 2

Adjective

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

Verb

torta f sg

1. feminine singular past participle of torcere

Anagrams

• ratto, rotta, trota

Latin

Participle

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

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, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾtɐ/

Etymology 1

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

Adjective

torta f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective torto.

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *torta, from the expression torta panis, from feminine of Latin tortus.

Noun

torta f (plural tortas)

1. pie
2. tart

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tȏrta f ‎(Cyrillic spelling то̑рта)

1. cake

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *torta, from torta panis ‎(“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus ‎(“twisted, folded over”). Cognate to French tourte.

Noun

torta f ‎(plural tortas)

1. A cake.
2. A tart, pie.
3. (Mexico) A sandwich on a roll.
4. (Spain, colloquial) slap in the face, cuff on the ear

Synonyms

• (sandwich): bocadillo m, emparedado m, sánduche m, sándwich m, sándwiche m
• (slap): bofetada, bofetón, cachetada, sopapo

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: torta

Veps

Verb

torta

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

Inflection

References

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