torte

See also: Torte, törte, and tortë

Contents

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Torte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔː(ɹ)t/
• Homophones: tort, taught, taut

Noun

torte (plural tortes)

1. A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).

Translations

a rich, dense cake

• Czech: dort (cs) m
• German: torte (de)
• Hungarian: torta (hu)
• Polish: tort (pl) m

• Portuguese: torta (pt)
• Russian: торт (ru) m (tort)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Otter, Treto, ortet, otter, toret, toter

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Bourguignon

Etymology

From Late Latin torta.

Noun

torte f (plural tortes)

1. pie, tart

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Friulian

Etymology

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, Romansh turta, tuorta, French tourte, Romanian turtă. Cf. also tuart, from Latin tortus.

Noun

torte f (plural tortis)

1. cake, pie, tart, etc.

Related terms

• tuart
• stuarzi

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German

Verb

torte

1. First-person singular present of torten.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of torten.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of torten.
4. Imperative singular of torten.

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Interlingue

Noun

torte

1. cake

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Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.te/, [ˈt̪or̺t̪e]
• Rhymes: -orte
• Stress: tórte
• Hyphenation: tor‧te

Noun

torte f pl

1. plural of torta

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.te/, [ˈt̪ɔr̺t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ɔrte
• Stress: tòrte
• Hyphenation: tor‧te

Adjective

torte

1. feminine plural of torto

Verb

torte

1. feminine plural of the past participle of torcere

Anagrams

• retto, rotte, tetro, trote

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Latin

Participle

torte

1. vocative masculine singular of tortus

References

• torte in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• torte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette