torte
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
torte (plural tortes)
- A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
TranslationsEdit
a rich, dense cake
AnagramsEdit
BourguignonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin torta.
NounEdit
torte f (plural tortes)
EstonianEdit
NounEdit
torte
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a Late Latin torta (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *turta), from the expression torta panis ("twisted bread"), from the feminine of Latin tortus. Compare Italian torta, Venetian torta, Romansch turta, tuorta, French tourte, Romanian turtă. Cf. also tuart, from Latin tortus.
NounEdit
torte f (plural tortis)
Related termsEdit
GermanEdit
VerbEdit
torte
- inflection of torten:
ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
torte f pl
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
torte
ParticipleEdit
torte f pl
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
ParticipleEdit
torte
ReferencesEdit
- “torte”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- torte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette