What Is the Origin of the Word Tortilla

English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation [edit]

• ( Received Pronunciation ) IPA^(key): /tɔːˈtijə/, /tɔːˈti.ə/
• ( US ) IPA^(key): /tɔɹˈti.ə/, /tɔɹˈtijə/, [tɔɹˈtʰijə]
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun [edit]

tortilla (plural tortillas)

1. ( 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.

2. ( 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.

Translations [edit]

a flat round bread

Arabic: فطيرة الدقيق. فطيرة الذرى‎ f ( fatirat addakik, fatirat athoura ), ملاوي‎ f ( m'lawi (Tunisian dialect) ), فطيرة الدقيق. فطيرة الذرى‎ f ( fatirat addakik, fatirat a'thoura ), فطيرة الدقيق. فطيرة الذرى‎ f ( fatirat addakik, fatirat a'thoura ) Chinese: Mandarin: 墨西哥薄餅, 墨西哥薄饼 ( Mòxīgē báobǐng ) Esperanto: tortiljo Estonian: tortilla  (et) Finnish: tortilla  (fi) Galician: tortilla de fariña de trigo f , tortilla de fariña f , tortilla de trigo f German: Tortilla  (de) f Greek: τορτίγια  (el) ( tortígia ) Guerrero Amuzgo: cha Interlingua: tortilla Japanese: トルティーヤ ( torutīya ) Maltese: tortilla f Nahuatl: Classical: tlaxcalli Central: tlaxcalli Guerrero: tlaxkajli Highland Puebla: taxcal Mecayapan: táxcal Michoacán: laxcali Morelos: tlaxkale Northern Puebla: tlaxcali Tetelcingo: tlaxcali̱ Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla : tlaxcal

Navajo: náneeskaadí Polish: tortilla  (pl) f Portuguese: tortilha  (pt) f Russian: торти́лья  (ru) m ( tortílʹja ) (tortilia) f Spanish: tortilla de harina de trigo f , tortilla de harina f , tortilla de trigo f , tortilla  (es) f Swedish: tortilla  (sv) c , tortillabröd n Turkish: lavaş  (tr) Tz'utujil: aawaay, way Tzotzil: vaj Yucatec Maya: waaj Zapotec: Choapan yëta Isthmus gueta

Further reading [edit]

• tortilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams [edit]

• littoral

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Finnish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtortilːɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞rt̪ilːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ortilːɑ
• Syllabification: tor‧til‧la

Etymology 1 [edit]

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Noun [edit]

tortilla

1. tortilla
2. a tortilla-based dish; a burrito

Declension [edit]

Inflection of tortilla (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
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 tortillain rare
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
instructive		—	tortilloin
abessive		tortillatta	tortilloitta
comitative		—	tortilloineen

Possessive forms of tortilla (type katiska)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tortillani	tortillamme
2nd person	tortillasi	tortillanne
3rd person	tortillansa

Etymology 2 [edit]

Noun [edit]

tortilla

1. adessive singular of tortti

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French [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.ti.ja/

Verb [edit]

tortilla

1. third-person singular past historic of tortiller

Anagrams [edit]

• littoral

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Galician [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtiʎa/

Noun [edit]

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. Spanish omelette, tortilla
2. omelette
3. ( rare ) tortilla

Synonyms [edit]

• ( Spanish omelette ) tortilla de patacas, tortilla española
• ( omelette ) tortilla francesa
• ( tortilla ) tortilla de fariña de trigo, tortilla de fariña, tortilla de trigo

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• tortillera
• tortillería

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Polish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /tɔrˈtjilːa/

Noun [edit]

tortilla f

1. tortilla (flat round bread)
2. Spanish omelette

Declension [edit]

Further reading [edit]

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

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Spanish [edit]

Tortilla (flour tortilla)

Etymology [edit]

From Old Spanish tortiella, diminutive of torta ( " round flatbread " ).

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtiʝa/, [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʝa]

Noun [edit]

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. ( Spain and most Hispanic countries ) Spanish omelette, tortilla

   Synonyms: ( Spain ) tortilla de patatas, ( Hispanic America, Canary Islands ) tortilla de papas, tortilla española

2. ( Spain and most Hispanic countries ) omelette

   Synonym: tortilla francesa

3. ( Mexico and Central America ) tortilla

   Synonyms: tortilla de harina de trigo, tortilla de harina, tortilla de trigo

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• tortillera
• tortillería

Descendants [edit]

• → English: tortilla
• → Finnish: tortilla
• → Galician: tortilla
• → German: Tortilla
• → Polish: tortilla

Further reading [edit]

• "tortilla" in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

What Is the Origin of the Word Tortilla

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tortilla

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