torta

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹtə/

Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and 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 flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
3. (slang) An overweight Mexican or Hispanic woman

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

torta (plural tortas)

1. A Philippine omelette of ground meat and potatoes.

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

torta (countable and uncountable, plural tortas)

1. 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 , 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.

• torta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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

torta f (plural tortes)

1. twisting

   Synonym: torsió

2. 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.

3. a circuitous route, a roundabout way

   Synonym: marrada

torta

1. feminine singular of tort

torta f (plural tortes)

1. female equivalent of tort (“one-eyed person”)

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾta/
• Rhymes: -ɔɾta
• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart
2. pie

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

Borrowed from Italian torta.^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -tɒ
• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

torta (plural torták)

1. torte, cake, gateau (a dense dessert richly decorated and filled with cream or jam)

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/

torta (plural tortas)

1. cake

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ta/^[1]
• Rhymes: -orta
• Hyphenation: tór‧ta

torta f (plural torte)

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

• tortaio
• torta pasqualina
• tortello, tortellino
• tortiera
• tortino

• torto
• torcere

• → 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/^[1]
• 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 corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: tòr‧ta

torta

1. feminine singular of torto

torta

1. feminine singular of torto

• ratto, rotta, trota

Borrowed from German Torte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Syllabification: tor‧ta

torta f (diminutive tortk or torcëk)

1. torte, gateau (type of cake)

• 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

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 ), or from turta (“type of pastry”).

torta f (genitive tortae); first declension

1. (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

First-declension noun.

torta

1. inflection of tortus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

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

• turta

• IPA^(key): /ˈturta/

torta f (plural torte)

1. cake, tart, pie

• Rhymes: -ɔɾtɐ
• Hyphenation: tor‧ta

From Latin torta, feminine of tortus.

torta

1. feminine singular of torto

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

torta f (plural tortas)

1. (Brazil) pie, tart

   Synonym: (Portugal) tarte

2. (Portugal) Swiss roll

   Synonym: (Brazil) rocambole

• “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

Borrowed from German Torte.

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

tȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling то̑рта)

1. cake

• "torta" in Hrvatski jezični portal

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/

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• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: tor‧ta

torta f (plural tortas)

1. tart, pie

   Synonym: tarta

2. (South America) cake

   Synonym: pastel

3. (Mexico, Guatemala) sandwich on a roll

   Synonyms: bocadillo, emparedado, sándwich

4. (Spain) flatbread
5. (Spain, colloquial) slap in the face, cuff on the ear

   Synonyms: bofetada, bofetón, cachetada, sopapo

6. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

7. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory, Rioplatense) dyke, lez (a lesbian)

   Synonym: arepera

• → English: torta
• → Tagalog: torta
  • → English: torta

• “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

• tarot, trató, trato, trotá, trota

• tolta

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

torta c

1. alpine sow-thistle (Cicerbita alpina)

• torta in Svensk ordbok.

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾta/
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: tor‧ta

torta (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇ᜔ᜆ)

1. torta (a type of egg omelette with various ingredients, especially eggplant)

• tortilya

• → English: torta

• omelet

• trato

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