Italian Word of the Day:
"Torta"
"Torta"
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The generic name for a baked sweet that is round in shape and made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter and eggs is
torta
(feminine, plural:
torte
).
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Although
cake
is the most common translation in English, it may also denote a
pie
.
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It comes from the Latin
tōrta
which means
(pasta) ravvolta
or
rolled pasta.
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Example sentence:
Ho mangiato tre fette di torta e adesso ho mal di pancia.
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I ate three slices of cake and now I have a stomach ache.
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If a
torta
is savoury instead of sweet, it tends to be called a
torta salata
which translates in English as
savoury pie
,
savoury tart
or
quiche
.
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