# torta
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɔːtə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈtɔɹtə/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

torta (plural tortas)
* (US) A sandwich, served either hot or cold, on an oblong white sandwich roll, derived from Mexican cuisine.
* A flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
* (slang) An overweight Mexican or Hispanic woman

##### Related terms

* torta ahogada
* torta pounder

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

torta (plural tortas)
* A Philippine omelette of ground meat and potatoes.

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

torta (countable and uncountable, plural tortas)
* 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.

### Further reading

* torta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɔr.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɔɾ.ta]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

torta f (plural tortes)
* twisting
    Synonym: torsió
* 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.
* a circuitous route, a roundabout way
    Synonym: marrada

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

torta
* feminine singular of tort

#### Noun

torta f (plural tortes)
* female equivalent of tort (“one-eyed person”)

### Further reading

* “torta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “torta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “torta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “torta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔɾta/ [ˈt̪ɔɾ.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔɾta
* Hyphenation: tor‧ta

### Noun

torta f (plural tortas)
* tart
* pie

### Further reading

* “torta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian torta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtortɒ]
* Rhymes: -tɒ
* Hyphenation: tor‧ta

### Noun

torta (plural torták)
* torte, cake, gateau (a dense dessert richly decorated and filled with cream or jam)

#### Derived terms

* csokoládétorta
* diótorta
* dobostorta
* sajttorta
* tortalapát
* Fekete-erdő torta

### References

* ↑ 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

* 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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtor.ta/

### Noun

torta (plural tortas)
* cake

## Italian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtor.ta/
* Rhymes: -orta
* Hyphenation: tór‧ta

#### Noun

torta f (plural torte)
* pie, tart, cake or similar
* (heraldry) roundel (of a tincture; see bisante)

##### Derived terms

* tortaio
* torta di Natale
* torta pasqualina
* tortello, tortellino
* tortiera
* tortino

##### Related terms

* torto
* torcere

##### Descendants

* → English: torta
* → German: Torte, Tarte (obsolete, but borrowed anew from Modern French), Turte (obsolete)
** → Czech: dort
** → English: torte
** → Estonian: tort
** → Hungarian: torta
** → Japanese: トルテ (torute)
** → Macedonian: торта (torta)
** → Polish: tort
** → Romanian: tort
** → Russian: торт (tort), тортъ (tort) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
*** → Armenian: տորթ (tortʻ)
*** → Kazakh: торт (tort)
*** → Yakut: торт (tort)
** → Serbo-Croatian: torta / торта
** → Ukrainian: торт (tort)
* → Turkish: turta

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔr.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔrta
* Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

#### Noun

torta f (plural torte)
* (rare) the act of twisting
* (archaic) the result of twisting
    Synonyms: torcitura, piegatura

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔr.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔrta
* Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

#### Participle

torta
* feminine singular of torto

#### Adjective

torta
* feminine singular of torto

### References

* 1 2 3 torta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* ratto, rotta, trota

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Torte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔr.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔrta
* Syllabification: tor‧ta

### Noun

torta f (diminutive tortk or torcëk)
* torte, gateau (type of cake)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “tort”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tort”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “torta”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Latin
### Etymology

From torta pānis f sg (literally “a roll of bread”); either from the feminine of tortus (“twisted, folded over”) that describes the form of the bread (torta [forma]), or from turta (“type of pastry”).

### Noun

torta f (genitive tortae); first declension
* (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

First-declension noun.

### Participle

torta
* inflection of tortus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

tortā
* ablative feminine singular of tortus

### References

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* turta

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈturta/

### Noun

torta f (plural torte)
* cake, tart, pie

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈtɔh.tɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈtɔh.tɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈtɔɾ.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈtɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈtɔχ.tɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɔɻ.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɔɾ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔɾtɐ
* Hyphenation: tor‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

#### Adjective

torta
* feminine singular of torto

##### Related terms

* torcer

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

torta f (plural tortas)
* (Brazil) pie, tart
    Synonym: (Portugal) tarte
* (Portugal) Swiss roll
    Synonym: (Brazil) rocambole

##### Derived terms

* minitorta
* torta de bolacha
* torta de climão
* torteira
* tortinha

##### Related terms

* tortilha

### Further reading

* “torta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “torta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Torte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tôːrta/
* Hyphenation: tor‧ta

### Noun

tȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling то̑рта)
* cake

#### Declension
### Further reading

* "torta" in Hrvatski jezični portal

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

torta f (plural tortas)
* tart, pie
    Synonym: tarta
* (South America) cake
    Synonym: pastel
* (Mexico, Guatemala) submarine sandwich
    Synonyms: (Spain) bocadillo, bocata
* (Spain) flatbread
* (Spain, colloquial) slap in the face, cuff on the ear
    Synonyms: bofetada, bofetón, cachetada, sopapo
* (colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
* (colloquial, sometimes derogatory, Rioplatense) dyke, lez (a lesbian)
    Synonym: arepera

#### Derived terms

* a falta de pan, buenas son tortas
* torta de cumpleaños
* torta de queso (“cheesecake”) (Venezuela)
* torta marmolada
* tortazo
* tortear
* tortera
* tortero
* tortilla
* tortita
* zampatortas

#### Related terms

* torcer
* tuerta
* tuerto

#### Descendants

* → English: torta
* → Tagalog: torta
** → English: torta

### Further reading

* “torta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* tarot, trató, trato, trotá, trota

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* tolta

### Etymology

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

### Noun

torta c
* alpine sow-thistle (Cicerbita alpina)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* torta in Svensk ordbok.

## Tagalog
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtoɾta/ [ˈt̪oɾ.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -oɾta
* Syllabification: tor‧ta

### Noun

torta (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇ᜔ᜆ)
* torta (a type of egg omelette with various ingredients, especially eggplant)

#### Derived terms

* tortahan
* tortahin
* tortang alamang
* tortang giniling
* tortang gulay
* tortang hipon
* tortang kalabasa
* tortang kamote
* tortang okra
* tortang talong

#### Related terms

* tortilya

#### Descendants

* → English: torta

#### See also

* omelet

### Anagrams

* trato

## Veps
### Etymology

From the noun torv.

### Verb

torta
* to blow (trumpet, horn, etc.)

#### Inflection
### References

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