tortas

English

Noun

tortas

1. plural of torta

Anagrams

• Rattos, Tatros, ottars, rottas, stator, strato-, tarots, tators, troats

Interlingua

Noun

tortas

1. plural of torta

Latin

Participle

tortās

1. accusative feminine plural of tortus

Lithuanian

Tortas

Etymology

Borrowed from other European languages, ultimately from Italian torta (“cake”), from Latin tortus (“twisted, folded over”).

Noun

tòrtas m (plural tòrtai) stress pattern 1

1. torte, cake

   torto gabalėlis ― slice of cake

   šokoladinis tortas ― chocolate cake

   gimtadienio tortas ― birthday cake

Usage notes

Usage is similar to Russian торт (tort).

• tortas is a multi-layered, large cake (e.g., a wedding cake)
• keksas is a pound cake, or bundt cake
• pyragas is a pie or pirog, which can also be savory
• pyragaitis is a small cake, i.e., petit four
• biskvitas is a sponge cake

Declension

Declension of tòrtas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	tòrtas	tòrtai
genitive (kilmininkas)	tòrto	tòrtų
dative (naudininkas)	tòrtui	tòrtams
accusative (galininkas)	tòrtą	tòrtus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	tòrtu	tòrtais
locative (vietininkas)	tòrte	tòrtuose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	tòrte	tòrtai

Further reading

• “tortas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “tortas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʁ.tɐs/ [ˈtɔh.tɐs]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʁ.tɐs/ [ˈtɔh.tɐs]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.tɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʁ.tɐʃ/ [ˈtɔχ.tɐʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɻ.tas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾ.tɐʃ/

• Hyphenation: tor‧tas

Adjective

tortas

1. feminine plural of torto

Noun

tortas

1. plural of torta

Spanish

Noun

tortas

1. plural of torta