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

torte (countable and uncountable, 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).
   • 1994, Shanna Swendson, chapter 3, in Runaway Hearts (An Avalon Romance), New York, N.Y.: Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 32:

     The football discussion had cut off as soon as Lacey entered the room. Now they just sat silently eating torte and sipping tea.

   • 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):

     Call Natalie at Glorious Foods and tell her no for the 40th time. No! I don't want dacquoise. I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote.

• torte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• toter, Treto, toret, otter, Ortet, Otter, Tetro, ortet, ETRTO

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

torte f

1. plural of torta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

torte

1. feminine plural of torto

torte

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.