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

Dialectal variation of tart.

tort (comparative more tort, superlative most tort)

1. Tart, sharp.

Borrowed from Old French tort, from Latin tortum, from tortus (“twisted”).

tort (plural torts)

1. An injury or wrong. [from the mid-13th c.]
   • Spenser

     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 the later 16th c.]
3. (law, only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts).

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

• cotortfeasor
• tortfeasance
• tortfeasor
• tortious
• tortiously

• de son tort
• tort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

tort (comparative torter, superlative tortest)

1. (obsolete) Stretched tight; taut.
   • Emerson

     Yet holds he them with tortest rein.

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 Occitan, from Latin tortus.

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

1. bent, twisted, crooked, askew, wonky

• a tort i a dret

• tòrcer
• tortura

• “tort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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

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.

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

• avoir tort
• à tort ou à raison, "right or wrong".

• tordre
• torture
• tourte

• “tort” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• trot

tor +‎ -t

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

tort

1. accusative singular of tor

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.

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)
   • 12^th 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

• English: tort
• French: 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

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “torquēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 1010

Borrowed from German Torte.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrt/

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tort m inan (diminutive torcik)

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

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

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