tortilla

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɔːˈtijə/, /tɔːˈti.ə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɹˈti.ə/, /tɔɹˈtijə/, [tɔɹˈtʰijə]

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• Rhymes: -iːə

tortilla (plural tortillas)

1. A type of Mexican flatbread made out of cornmeal or flour.
   • 2001, Rafaela Castro, Chicano Folklore, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 230:

     From this dough are shaped small round forms, or a tortilla press can be used to more easily flatten many perfectly round, thin cakes. Tortilla machines, found all over Mexico and the Southwest, can produce hundreds of tortillas per hour.

2. Spanish omelette; a type of omelette containing potatoes and onions.
   • 2004, The Student Cookbook, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     An authentic Spanish tortilla is traditionally made with just eggs, potatoes, onions, salt and pepper, but this version contains sliced red and green peppers for a bit of extra colour and flavour.

• tortilla chip

• tortilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• littoral

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrˈti.jaː/, /tɔrˈtil.jaː/

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• Hyphenation: tor‧til‧la

tortilla f (plural tortilla's, diminutive tortillaatje n)

1. tortilla (flat round bread)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtortilːɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞rt̪ilːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ortilːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): tor‧til‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): tor‧til‧la

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

tortilla

1. tortilla
2. a tortilla-based dish; a burrito

• “tortilla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

tortilla

1. adessive singular of tortti

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.ti.ja/

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tortilla

1. third-person singular past historic of tortiller

• littoral

From Spanish tortilla.

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtiʎa/

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. Spanish omelette, tortilla
2. omelette
3. (rare) tortilla

• (Spanish omelette) tortilla de patacas, tortilla española
• (omelette) tortilla francesa
• (tortilla) tortilla de fariña de trigo, tortilla de fariña, tortilla de trigo

• tortillera
• tortillería

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrˈti.ja/, /tɔrˈtil.la/

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• Rhymes: -ija, -illa
• Syllabification: tor‧ti‧lla, tor‧til‧la

tortilla f

2. tortilla (flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour)
4. tortilla, Spanish omelette (molded omelette made with the addition of fried potatoes and often onions)

• tortilla in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• tortilla in PWN's encyclopedia

Inherited from Old Spanish tortiella, diminutive of torta (“round flatbread”).

• Syllabification: tor‧ti‧lla

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) Spanish omelette, tortilla (omelette)

   Synonyms: (Spain) tortilla de patatas, (Hispanic America, Canary Islands) tortilla de papas, tortilla española

2. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) omelette

   Synonym: tortilla francesa

3. (Mexico, Central America) tortilla (flatbread)

   Synonyms: tortilla de harina de trigo, tortilla de harina, tortilla de trigo

• → Dutch: tortilla
• → English: tortilla
• → Finnish: tortilla
• → Galician: tortilla
• → German: Tortilla
• → Polish: tortilla

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