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

Borrowed fromSpanishtorta, fromLatinturta, thought to derive from Latintŏrta f(“twisted”).Doublet oftorte andtart.

torta (pluraltortas)

1. (US) Asandwich, served either hot or cold, on an oblong white sandwich roll, derived fromMexican cuisine.
2. A flatheap ofmoist,crushedsilverore, prepared for thepatio process.
3. (slang) An overweight Mexican or Hispanic woman

Borrowed fromTagalogtorta, fromSpanishtorta, fromLatinturta, thought to derive from Latintŏrta f(“twisted”).Doublet oftorte andtart.

torta (pluraltortas)

1. APhilippineomelette ofgroundmeat andpotatoes.

Borrowed fromItaliantorta, fromLatinturta, thought to derive from Latintŏrta f(“twisted”).Doublet oftorte andtart.

torta (countable anduncountable,pluraltortas)

1. AnItaliancake.
   • 1991, Patricia Unterman, editor,Best Restaurants of San Francisco: The San Francisco Chronicle Guide to Fine Dining, San Francisco, Calif.:Chronicle Books,→ISBN,page275:

     They include fresh noodles, roasted chickens, savory Italiantortas,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”, inNew York, page92, column 1:

     Perhaps there could be a smarter balsamic kick in the latte cotto custard, more oomph in the chocolatetorta.

   • 1998, Donna Peck,Romantic Days and Nights in San Francisco: Intimate Escapes in the City by the Bay,Globe Pequot Press,→ISBN, page153:

     Internationally popular from his cookbooks and television show, Middione fills the deli case with southern Italiantortas, roasted chicken, polenta, and white bean salad.

   • 2003,Elgy Gillespie, “Trattoria Contadina”, inThe Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants,2004 edition,Rough Guides Ltd,→ISBN, page98:

     To follow, there’s good, strong coffee and desserts such as chocolatetorta 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”, inPalm Beach Life, page34:

     The cuisine is rustic, with a decent choice of fish and meat, and great desserts like hazelnut chocolatetorta 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 Italiantortas 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 chocolatetorta.

     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, chocolatetorta 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’storta (see Appendix II) will serve twenty-five people, and he specifies the quantities of ingredients and how to bake thetorta (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 oftorta 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 chocolatetorta.

   • 2019, Sue Parritt, chapter 14, inFeed Thy Enemy, Next Chapter, published2021:

     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 chocolatetorta, 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[pseudonym; Amanda Anders],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 chocolatetorta. 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 oftorta 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 chocolatetorta—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 withpaste 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)[ˈtɔr.tə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈtɔɾ.ta]

Nominalization of what was originally the feminine past participle oftòrcer.

torta f (pluraltortes)

1. twisting

   Synonym:torsió

2. turn,bend

   Simulava que estava borratxo i marxava fenttortes cap a casa.

   He pretended he was drunk and went off towards home makingtwists and turns.

3. acircuitousroute, aroundaboutway

   Synonym:marrada

torta

1. femininesingular oftort

torta f (pluraltortes)

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

• “torta” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “torta”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
• “torta” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “torta” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

FromOld Galician-Portuguese, fromLatinturta. Thought to derive from Latintŏrta f(“twisted”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈtɔɾta/[ˈt̪ɔɾ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes:-ɔɾta
• Hyphenation:tor‧ta

torta f (pluraltortas)

1. tart
2. pie

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

Borrowed fromItaliantorta.^[1]

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

torta (pluraltorták)

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

• torta inGéza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.

FromLate Latintorta, from the expressiontortapānis f sg(literally“a twist of bread”), from the feminine of the adjectivetortus.

• IPA^(key):/ˈtor.ta/

torta (pluraltortas)

1. cake

FromLatinturta. Thought to derive from Latintŏrta f(“twisted”), which yieldedtòrta in Italian.

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

torta f (pluraltorte)

1. pie,tart,cake or similar
2. (heraldry)roundel (of atincture; seebisante)

• tortaio
• torta di Natale
• 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 fromtorto, past participle oftorcere(“to twist”).

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

torta f (pluraltorte)

1. (rare) the act oftwisting
2. (archaic) the result of twisting

   Synonyms:torcitura,piegatura

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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

torta

1. femininesingular oftorto

torta

1. femininesingular oftorto

• ratto,rotta,trota

Borrowed fromGermanTorte.

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

torta f (diminutivetortkortorcëk)

1. torte,gateau(type of cake)

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “tort”, inSłownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tort”, inSłownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “torta”, inInternetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby,2022

Fromtortapānis f sg(literally“a roll of bread”); either from the feminine oftortus(“twisted, folded over”) that describes the form of the bread (torta [forma]), or fromturta(“type of pastry”).

torta f (genitivetortae);first declension

1. (Late Latin) roll of bread (usually made with unsifted flour)
   • 405CE,Jerome,Vulgate Chronicles.16.3:

     tortam panis et partem assae carnis bubulae et frixam oleo similam

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

torta

1. inflection oftortus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

tortā

1. ablativefemininesingular oftortus

• “torta”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "torta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium 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 (pluraltorte)

1. cake,tart,pie

• Rhymes:-ɔɾtɐ
• Hyphenation:tor‧ta

FromLatintorta, feminine oftortus.

torta

1. femininesingular oftorto

FromOld Galician-Portuguese, fromLatinturta. Thought to derive from Latintŏrta f(“twisted”).

torta f (pluraltortas)

1. (Brazil)pie,tart

   Synonym:(Portugal)tarte

2. (Portugal)Swiss roll

   Synonym:(Brazil)rocambole

• “torta”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
• “torta”, inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2025

Borrowed fromGermanTorte.

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

tȏrta f (Cyrillic spellingто̑рта)

1. cake

• "torta" inHrvatski jezični portal

Inherited fromLatinturta. Thought to derive from Latintŏrta f(“twisted”), which actually yieldedtuerta in Spanish.

• IPA^(key):/ˈtoɾta/[ˈt̪oɾ.t̪a]

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• Rhymes:-oɾta
• Syllabification:tor‧ta

torta f (pluraltortas)

1. tart,pie

   Synonym:tarta

2. (South America)cake

   Synonym:pastel

3. (Mexico,Guatemala)submarine sandwich

   Synonyms:(Spain)bocadillo,bocata

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

   Synonyms:bofetada,bofetón,cachetada,sopapo

6. (colloquial)drunkenness

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:borrachera

7. (colloquial, sometimesderogatory,Rioplatense)dyke,lez (a lesbian)

   Synonym:arepera

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

• “torta”, inDiccionario 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 synonymousNorwegianturt,tort,turta,torta,turte,torte,Danishturt.

torta c

1. alpine sow-thistle (Cicerbita alpina)

• torta in Svensk ordbok.

Borrowed fromSpanishtorta(“cake”). CompareCebuanotorta(“cupcake”) andEnglishtart.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈtoɾta/[ˈt̪oɾ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes:-oɾta
• Syllabification:tor‧ta

torta (Baybayin spellingᜆᜓᜇ᜔ᜆ)

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

• tortilya

• → English:torta

• omelet

• trato

From the nountorv.

torta

1. toblow(trumpet, horn, etc.)

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “трубить”, inUz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika