tort

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɔːt/

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• (General American) enPR: tô(ɹ)t, IPA^(key): /tɔ(ə)ɹt/, /tɔː(ɹ)t/

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• Homophones: taught, taut (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

From Middle English tort, from Old French tort, from Latin tortum, from tortus (“twisted”).

tort (plural torts)

1. An injury or wrong. [from mid-13th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 4:

     that had them long opprest with tort

2. (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. [from late 16th c.]
3. (law, only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts).

• (law: wrongful act): delict (Scots law)

• cotortfeasor
• tortfeasance
• tortfeasor
• tortious
• tortiously

• de son tort
• tort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dialectal variation of tart.

tort (comparative more tort, superlative most tort)

1. Tart; sharp.

tort (comparative torter, superlative tortest)

1. (obsolete) Stretched tight; taut.
   • 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Initial, Dæmonic, and Celestial Love”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, OCLC 625986, part I (The Initial Love), page 158:

     Yet holds he them with tortest rein, / That they may seize and entertain / The glance that to their glance opposes, / Like fiery honey sucked from roses.

Shortening.

tort (plural torts)

1. (slang) A tortoise.

Shortening.

tort (plural torts)

1. (slang) A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).

• ROTT, Rott, TRTO, Trot, trot

From Old Catalan tort, from Latin tortus (“twisted”).

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

tort (feminine torta, masculine plural torts, feminine plural tortes)

1. bent, twisted, crooked, askew, wonky
2. one-eyed

   Synonym: borni

• tòrcer
• tortura

tort m (plural torts)

1. harm, injury

   Synonym: dany

• “tort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from German Torte.

tort (genitive tordi, partitive torti)

1. large cake; cream cake, gateau

   Synonyms: kook, keeks

From Old French tort, from Latin tortum, substantive use of tortus, the past participle of torqueō (“twist, turn”).

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ
• Homophones: tord, tords, tore, tores, tors, torts (general), taure, taures (one pronunciation)

tort m (plural torts)

1. fault

   Elle a le tort d'avoir trop de précipitation. ― Her trouble is, she's too hasty.

   Le mari n'a aucun tort. ― The husband is not to blame.

2. wrong, error

   Je regrette, vous avez tort. I'm afraid you are mistaken.

   Nous avons fait notre choix, à tort ou à raison. We have made our choice, rightly or wrongly.

   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter IV:

     [J]e suis le valeureux don Quichotte de la Manche, le défaiseur de torts et le réparateur d’iniquités.

     ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.

• tordre
• torture
• tourte

• “tort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• trot

tor +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈtort]
• Hyphenation: tort

tort

1. accusative singular of tor

From Old French tort, from Latin tortum.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrt/

tort (plural tortes)

1. (rare, especially law) tort (wrong)

• English: tort
• Scots: tort

• “tort, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from French tort, from Latin tortum.

• IPA^(key): /tuʈ/
• Rhymes: -uʈ

tort

1. (law) offense against someone, an insult or inconvenience caused to someone

Only used in the legal phrase tort og svie.

• tortur

• “tort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

tort

1. supine of tora

From Latin tortum, substantive use of tortus, the past participle of torqueō (“twist, turn”).

tort m (oblique plural torz or tortz, nominative singular torz or tortz, nominative plural tort)

1. wrong; misdeed (something considered wrong)
   • 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:

     Sovent regrete le roi Marc
     Son oncle, qui a fait tel tort

     King Mark often regretted
     That his uncle had done such a bad thing

• torcious

• tordre

• French: tort
• → Middle English: tort
  • English: tort
  • Scots: tort

From Latin tortum, substantive use of tortus, the past participle of torqueō (“twist, turn”).

tort m (oblique plural tortz, nominative singular tortz, nominative plural tort)

1. wrong (immoral act)
2. error; mistake

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “torquēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1010

Borrowed from German Torte, from Italian torta, from Latin turta.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: tort

tort m inan (diminutive torcik)

1. torte (type of cake)
2. birthday cake

• tort in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin tortus.

tort n (plural torturi)

1. thread (spun and made of hemp)
2. quantity of spun threads

• toarce

Borrowed from German Torte.

• tortă

tort n (plural torturi)

1. cake

• turtă, prăjitură

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tort

1. tart
2. cake

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “торт”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika