torto

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French tourte, Italian torta, Spanish torta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtor.to/, /ˈtɔɾ.tɔ/

Noun

torto (plural torti)

  1. meat pie

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin tortus, from torqueo (“I bend”).

Adjective

torto (feminine singular torta, masculine plural torti, feminine plural torte)

  1. twisted, bent, crooked

Verb

torto m (feminine singular torta, masculine plural torti, feminine plural torte)

  1. past participle of torcere

Etymology 2

From Latin tortum (“a wrong or injustice”), substantive use of tortus, perfect passive participle of torqueō. Compare French tort.

Noun

torto m (plural torti)

  1. wrong, injustice
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Latin

Participle

tortō

  1. dative masculine singular of tortus
  2. dative neuter singular of tortus
  3. ablative masculine singular of tortus
  4. ablative neuter singular of tortus

References

  • torto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • torto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese torto, from Latin tortus, from torqueō.

Cognate with Galician torto, Spanish tuerto, Catalan tort, French tordu, Italian torto and Romanian tort.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtoɾ.tu/
  • Hyphenation: tor‧to

Adjective

torto m (feminine singular torta, masculine plural tortos, feminine plural tortas, comparable)

  1. twisted, bent, crooked
  2. awry
  3. wrong, dishonest
  4. one-eyed, cross-eyed

Noun

torto m (plural tortos)

  1. (archaic) offense, harm
  2. (archaic) injustice, wrong
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