torte

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɔːt/

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• (General American) enPR: tô(ɹ)t, IPA^(key): /tɔɹt/

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• Homophone: tort; taught, taut (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

torte (plural tortes or torten)

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

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

From Latin turta.

torte f (plural tortes)

1. pie, tart

torte

1. partitive plural of tort

From Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”), but this is phonologically problematic (cf. Friulian tuart < Latin tŏrtus).

torte f (plural tortis)

1. cake, pie, tart, etc.

• tuart
• stuarzi

torte

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

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

torte f pl

1. plural of torta

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

torte

1. feminine plural of torto

torte f pl

1. feminine plural of torto

• Ettòr, retto, retto-, rotte, tetro, trote

torte

1. vocative masculine singular of tortus

• “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.