torta

Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Late Latin torta, from torta panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”). Cognate to tart.

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.

• Ratto, Tatro, ottar, rotta, tarot, tator, torat, troat

torta

1. feminine singular of tort

From Old Portuguese, from Late Latin torta, from the expression torta panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

Borrowed from Italian torta.[1]

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

torta (plural torták)

1. torte, cake, gateau

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/

torta (plural tortas)

1. cake

From Late Latin torta, from the expression torta panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

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

torta f (plural torte)

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

• tortiera
• tortino

• torto
• torcere

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

torta f (plural torte)

1. (rare) The act of twisting.
2. (archaic) The result of twisting.

   Synonyms: torcitura, piegatura

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

torta f sg

1. feminine singular of torto

torta

1. Feminine singular of adjective torto.

• ratto, rotta, trota

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

• 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)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾtɐ/

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

torta

1. Feminine singular of adjective torto.

• torcer

From Old Portuguese, from Late Latin torta, from the expression torta panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus.

torta f (plural tortas)

1. pie
2. tart

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

tȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling то̑рта)

1. cake

From Late Latin torta (possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *turta; compare Romanian turtă, French tourte, Italian torta, Romansh turta, Sardinian turta[1]; Latin torta produced the expected diphthongized tuerta in Spanish), from torta panis (“twisted bread”), from feminine of Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtorta/, [ˈt̪ort̪a]

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

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

• torcer
• tuerto
• tuerta

• English: torta

From the noun torv.

torta

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

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