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torta

See also: torță

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

 
A typical torta

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

Noun edit

torta (plural tortas)

  1. (US) A sandwich, served either hot or cold, on an oblong white sandwich roll, derived from Mexican cuisine.
  2. A flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
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Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

torta (plural tortas)

  1. A Philippine omelette of ground meat and potatoes.

Etymology 3 edit

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

Noun edit

torta (countable and uncountable, plural tortas)

  1. An Italian cake.
    • 1991, Patricia Unterman, editor, Best Restaurants of San Francisco: The San Francisco Chronicle Guide to Fine Dining, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 275:
      They include fresh noodles, roasted chickens, savory Italian tortas, caponata and other antipasti like roasted onions in balsamic vinegar, crusty walnut breads, biscotti, and fabulous Italian desserts.
    • 1996 May 6, Gael Greene, “Where the Boys Are”, in New York, page 92, column 1:
      Perhaps there could be a smarter balsamic kick in the latte cotto custard, more oomph in the chocolate torta.
    • 1998, Donna Peck, Romantic Days and Nights in San Francisco: Intimate Escapes in the City by the Bay, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 153:
      Internationally popular from his cookbooks and television show, Middione fills the deli case with southern Italian tortas, roasted chicken, polenta, and white bean salad.
    • 2003, Elgy Gillespie, “Trattoria Contadina”, in The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants, 2004 edition, Rough Guides Ltd, →ISBN, page 98:
      To follow, there’s good, strong coffee and desserts such as chocolate torta with fresh whipped cream ($4.50), which comes from the divine Victoria Bakery a few steps away over the road (try their “Ugly But Beautiful” nut meringues), and gelato zabaglione ($3.50), an absolutely ambrosial yellow fluff.
    • 2003 winter, Linda Marx, “Boardwalk baby”, in Palm Beach Life, page 34:
      The cuisine is rustic, with a decent choice of fish and meat, and great desserts like hazelnut chocolate torta with meringue doused in espresso and layered chantilly cream with bitter cocoa, or “bugies,” little fried pockets of dough filled with candied lemon zest and grappa di Moscato, then dusted with sugar.
    • 2007, Marusya Bociurkiw, Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl, Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN:
      I cooked for her as I had never cooked before: Spanish appetizers, Thai curries, and Italian tortas landed before her in dizzying, delectable profusion.
    • 2012, Steven Parlato, The Namesake, Merit Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN:
      Leaving the world behind, I’d wallow in frosty solitude and chocolate torta.
      Italian is sometimes mentioned in the book.
    • 2015, Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels, Two Roads, →ISBN:
      He’d spoken in Italian to the woman at the door—the same words of condolence that the Scarlattas had used when visiting their grieving neighbors. People arrived bearing plates of food and fresh-cut flowers. There was a table crowded with offerings: a whole muskmelon, chocolate torta and jugs of wine, lamb stew with a skin of orange grease.
    • 2017, Katherine A. McIver, Kitchens, Cooking, and Eating in Medieval Italy, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 8:
      The Venetian writer’s torta (see Appendix II) will serve twenty-five people, and he specifies the quantities of ingredients and how to bake the torta (over a low flame).
    • 2018, Italy, 13th edition, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, →ISBN:
      It stocks global conceptual fashion from Marni, Martin Margela, Comme des Garçons et al, but come for the more interesting independent Italian labels or just a peek at the whimsical displays and enjoy a slice of torta and espresso in the in-store cafe.
    • 2018, Nepal, 11th edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN:
      Life is indeed sweet at Thamel’s best Italian bistro, offering up such delights as parmesan gnocchi; goat’s cheese and spinach ravioli; and sinfully rich chocolate torta.
    • 2019, Sue Parritt, chapter 14, in Feed Thy Enemy, Next Chapter, published 2021:
      As expected, the coach party arrive too late for afternoon tea, but Rob and Ivy enjoy the evening meal of soup, local fish and vegetables, followed by a slice of chocolate torta, served in a cavernous dining room located in the centre of the hotel’s first floor.
      The character takes a holiday in Italy.
    • 2020, Jane Godman [pseudonym; Amanda Anders], Family in the Crosshairs, Harlequin Romantic Suspense, →ISBN:
      He and Vincente are going head-to-head in a baking challenge. Wyoming meets Italy. Apple pie versus chocolate torta. It should be fun.
    • 2020, Mara G. Fox, The Other Side of Como, Eyewear Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
      Crimson nails flashing dangerously, she slowly cuts a piece of torta with the small fork, and raises it before her parted lips. ‘It is delicious, what’s in it?’ / Straightening his back and lifting his right hand, as if engaging in a poetic recital, he begins. ‘It has all the ingredients of the mountain: almonds and round hazelnuts from the Langhe in Piedmont, flour and eggs from the land, yeast. […]”
    • 2022, Katie Hafner, The Boys, Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN:
      As dessert was being served—an intensely rich chocolate torta—she asked one of the waiters if she might take the delicacy up to one of the guests who was celebrating his birthday. The waiter returned with a generous slice of the cake, ringed with paste di meliga, cornmeal shortbread cookies that were a specialty of the region.

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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Nominalization of what was originally the feminine past participle of tòrcer.

Noun edit

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

Etymology 2 edit

Adjective edit

torta

  1. feminine singular of tort

Noun edit

torta f (plural tortes)

  1. female equivalent of tort (“one-eyed person”)

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Galician edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɔɾta/ [ˈt̪ɔɾ.t̪ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɾta
  • Hyphenation: tor‧ta

Noun edit

torta f (plural tortas)

  1. tart
  2. pie

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Hungarian edit

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

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Italian torta.[1]

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

torta (plural torták)

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

Declension edit

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

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Compound words
Expressions

References edit

  1. ^ torta in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

  • 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 edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

torta (plural tortas)

  1. cake

Italian edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtor.ta/
  • Rhymes: -orta
  • Hyphenation: tór‧ta

Noun edit

torta f (plural torte)

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

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

torta f (plural torte)

  1. (rare) the act of twisting
  2. (archaic) the result of twisting
    Synonyms: torcitura, piegatura

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Participle edit

torta f sg

  1. feminine singular of torto

Adjective edit

torta f sg

  1. feminine singular of torto

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

torta

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

Participle edit

tortā

  1. ablative feminine singular of tortus

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Piedmontese edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

torta f (plural torte)

  1. cake, tart, pie

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: tor‧ta

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

Adjective edit

torta

  1. feminine singular of torto
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Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

torta f (plural tortas)

  1. (Brazil) pie, tart
    Synonym: (Portugal) tarte
  2. (Portugal) Swiss roll
    Synonyms: (Brazil) garibáldi, (Brazil) rocambole

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Torte.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

tȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling то̑рта)

  1. cake

Declension edit

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 edit

  • "torta" in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾta/ [ˈt̪oɾ.t̪a]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾta
  • Syllabification: tor‧ta

Noun edit

torta f (plural tortas)

  1. tart, pie
    Synonym: tarta
  2. (South America) cake
    Synonym: pastel
  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)
    Synonym: arepera

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Descendants edit

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Swedish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

torta c

  1. alpine sow-thistle (Cicerbita alpina)

Declension edit

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

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Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

torta (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇ᜔ᜆ)

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

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Veps edit

Etymology edit

From the noun torv.

Verb edit

torta

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

Inflection edit

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
1 In imperative: used only in the second-person singular. The plural form is used with other persons.

References edit

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