Torteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: tô(ɹ)t, IPA: /tɔɹt/
• 異形同音異義語: tort; taught, taut (non-rhotic)
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)t

名詞

torte (countable and uncountable, plural tortes or torten)

1. A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
   • 1994, Shanna Swendson, chapter 3, in Runaway Hearts (An Avalon Romance), New York, N.Y.: Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 32:

     The football discussion had cut off as soon as Lacey entered the room. Now they just sat silently eating torte and sipping tea.

   • 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):

     Call Natalie at Glorious Foods and tell her no for the 40th time. No! I don't want dacquoise. I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote.

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• toter, Treto, toret, otter, Ortet, Otter, Tetro, ortet, ETRTO

参照

• “torte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “torte”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.