tortilla
See also: Tortilla and tortillą
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɔːˈtijə/, /tɔːˈti.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /tɔɹˈti.ə/, /tɔɹˈtijə/, [tɔɹˈtʰijə]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːə
Noun
tortilla (plural tortillas)
- (Mexican cuisine) A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour.
- 2001, Rafaela Castro, Chicano Folklore, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 230:
- From this dough are shaped small round forms, or a tortilla press can be used to more easily flatten many perfectly round, thin cakes. Tortilla machines, found all over Mexico and the Southwest, can produce hundreds of tortillas per hour.
- (Spanish cuisine) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions.
- 2004, The Student Cookbook, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- An authentic Spanish tortilla is traditionally made with just eggs, potatoes, onions, salt and pepper, but this version contains sliced red and green peppers for a bit of extra colour and flavour.
Derived terms
Translations
a flat round bread
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Spanish omelette — see Spanish omelette
Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtortilːɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞rt̪ilːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ortilːɑ
- Syllabification(key): tor‧til‧la
Declension
Inflection of tortilla (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tortilla | tortillat | ||
genitive | tortillan | tortilloiden tortilloitten tortillojen | ||
partitive | tortillaa | tortilloita tortilloja | ||
illative | tortillaan | tortilloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tortilla | tortillat | ||
accusative | nom. | tortilla | tortillat | |
gen. | tortillan | |||
genitive | tortillan | tortilloiden tortilloitten tortillojen tortillainrare | ||
partitive | tortillaa | tortilloita tortilloja | ||
inessive | tortillassa | tortilloissa | ||
elative | tortillasta | tortilloista | ||
illative | tortillaan | tortilloihin | ||
adessive | tortillalla | tortilloilla | ||
ablative | tortillalta | tortilloilta | ||
allative | tortillalle | tortilloille | ||
essive | tortillana | tortilloina | ||
translative | tortillaksi | tortilloiksi | ||
abessive | tortillatta | tortilloitta | ||
instructive | — | tortilloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading
- “tortilla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔʁ.ti.ja/
Audio (file)
Anagrams
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toɾˈtiʎa/
Synonyms
- (Spanish omelette) tortilla de patacas, tortilla española
- (omelette) tortilla francesa
- (tortilla) tortilla de fariña de trigo, tortilla de fariña, tortilla de trigo
Related terms
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔrˈti.ja/, /tɔrˈtil.la/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ija, -illa
- Syllabification: tor‧ti‧lla
- Syllabification: tor‧til‧la
Noun
tortilla f
- tortilla (flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour)
- tortilla, Spanish omelette (molded omelette made with the addition of fried potatoes and often onions)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish tortiella, diminutive of torta (“round flatbread”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /toɾˈtiʝa/ [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /toɾˈtiʎa/ [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /toɾˈtiʃa/ [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /toɾˈtiʒa/ [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʒa]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa
- Syllabification: tor‧ti‧lla
Noun
tortilla f (plural tortillas)
- (Spain and most Hispanic countries) Spanish omelette, tortilla (omelette)
- Synonyms: (Spain) tortilla de patatas, (Hispanic America, Canary Islands) tortilla de papas, tortilla española
- (Spain and most Hispanic countries) omelette
- Synonym: tortilla francesa
- (Mexico, Central America) tortilla (flatbread)
- Synonyms: tortilla de harina de trigo, tortilla de harina, tortilla de trigo
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “tortilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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