torte

See also: Torte, törte, and tortë

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔː(ɹ)t/

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• 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
• Finnish: täytekakku (fi)
• German: Torte (de) f
• Hungarian: torta (hu)
• Japanese: トルテ (torute)
• Polish: tort (pl) m

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

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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Estonian

Noun

torte

1. partitive plural of tort

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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, Romansch 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. inflection of torten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.te/
• Rhymes: -orte
• Hyphenation: tór‧te

Noun

torte f pl

1. plural of torta

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.te/
• Rhymes: -ɔrte
• Hyphenation: tòr‧te

Adjective

torte

1. feminine plural of torto

Verb

torte

1. feminine plural of the past participle of torcere

Anagrams

• Ettòr, retto, 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