Feminine

torta

Meaning

  1. (feminine) tart, pie
  2. (South-America, feminine) cake
  3. (Guatemala, Mexico, feminine) submarine sandwich
  4. (Spain, feminine) flatbread
  5. (Spain, colloquial, feminine) slap in the face, cuff on the ear
  6. (colloquial, feminine) drunkenness
  7. (Rioplatense, colloquial, derogatory, feminine, sometimes) dyke, lez (a lesbian)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
tor‧ta
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtoɾta/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin turta. Thought by many to have been derived from Latin torta (“twisted”), but this actually yielded tuerta.

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