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tort
cake /ˈtort/
noun#2185 most common
Also: torte, layer cake
Example sentences
Vreau un tort de ciocolată.
I want a chocolate cake.
Mama a făcut un tort pentru ziua mea.
Mom made a cake for my birthday.
Tortul are trei straturi de cremă.
The cake has three layers of cream.
Am comandat un tort aniversar de la cofetărie.
I ordered a birthday cake from the pastry shop.
Copiii au tăiat tortul și au cântat "La mulți ani".
The children cut the cake and sang "Happy Birthday".
Deși tortul părea desăvârșit la suprafață, glazura ascundea un blat ars.
Although the cake looked perfect on the surface, the icing hid a burnt sponge base.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tort | torturi |
| Genitive | tortului | torturilor |
| Accusative | tort | torturi |
| Vocative | tort | torturi |
Word family
tortcake
tortulețsmall cake, cupcake (diminutive)
tort de nuntăwedding cake
tort aniversarbirthday cake
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "tort" from French "torte", itself from Italian "torta", meaning a round cake or twisted bread. The Italian word traces to Late Latin "torta" (panis), a "twisted loaf," from the verb "torquere", to twist. The same Latin verb gives English words like "torque" and "distort", so a bakery term and a mechanics term share one ancient root.
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