torte

See also: Torte, törte, and tortë

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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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

Noun

A serving of Sachertorte at the Hotel Sacher, Vienna

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.

Derived terms

• blitz torte
• Dobos torte
• Esterházy torte
• Linzer torte
• Sacher torte
• schmoo torte

Related terms

• Linzertorte
• Sachertorte

Translations

a rich, dense cake

• Czech: dort (cs) m
• Finnish: kakku (fi)
• German: Torte (de) f
• Hungarian: torta (hu)
• Japanese: トルテ (ja) (torute)
• Korean: 토르테 (toreute)
• Latvian: torte f
• Polish: tort (pl) m
• Portuguese: torta (pt)
• Russian: торт (ru) m (tort)
• Slovak: torta (sk) f
• Swedish: kaka (sv) c
• Ukrainian: торт (uk) m (tort)

Anagrams

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

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin turta.

Noun

torte f (plural tortes)

1. pie, tart

Estonian

Noun

torte

1. partitive plural of tort

Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

torte f (plural tortis)

1. cake, pie, tart, etc.

Related terms

• tuart
• stuarzi

German

Verb

torte

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

Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

torte f

1. plural of torta

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

torte

1. feminine plural of torto

Participle

torte

1. feminine plural of torto

Anagrams

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

Latin

Participle

torte

1. vocative masculine singular of tortus

References

• “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.