tort

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

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• (General American) enPR: tô(ɹ)t, IPA^(key): /tɔɹt/

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

From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”),[1] from Old French tort (“misdeed, wrong”) (modern French tort (“an error, wrong; a fault”)), from Medieval Latin tortum (“injustice, wrong”), a noun use of a neuter singular participle form of Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”), the perfect passive participle of torqueō (“to bend or twist awry, distort”),[2] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).

tort (plural torts)

1. (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. [from late 16th c.]

   Synonym: (Scots law) delict

   • [1628, Edw[ard] Coke, “Of Rents”, in The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 12, section 234, folio 158, verso:

     […] Wrong or Iniury, is in French aptly called Tort, becauſe Iniury & wrong is wreſted or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and ſtreight. […] And Britton ſaith that Tort a la ley eſt contrarye [a wrong to the law is contrary], and as aptly for the cauſe aforeſaid is iniury in English called wrong.]

   • 1768, William Blackstone, “Of Wrongs, and Their Remedies, Respecting the Rights of Persons”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book III (Of Private Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 117:

     Personal actions are ſuch vvhereby a man claims a debt, or perſonal duty, or damages in lieu thereof; and likevviſe vvhereby a man claims a ſatisfaction in damages for ſome injury done to his perſon or property. The former are ſaid to be founded on contracts, the latter upon torts or vvrongs: […] of the latter all actions for treſpaſſes, nuſances, aſſaults, defamatory vvords, and the like.

   • 1891, Henry Campbell Black, “TORT”, in A Dictionary of Law […], St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 1178, column 1:

     A tort is a legal wrong committed upon the person or property independent of contract. It may be either (1) a direct invasion of some legal right of the individual; (2) the infraction of some public duty by which special damage accrues to the individual; (3) the violation of some private obligation by which like damage accrues to the individual.

2. (obsolete) An injury or wrong. [late 14th – 18th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 172:

     Then gan triumphant Trompets ſovvnd on hye, / That ſent to heuen the ecchoed report / Of their nevv ioy, and happie victory / Gainſt him, that had them long oppreſt with tort, / And faſt impriſoned in ſieged fort.

   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature P3, verso:

     For no vvild beaſts ſhould do them any torte / There or abroad, ne vvould his maieſtye / Vſe them but vvell, vvith gracious clemencye, / As vvhome he knevv to him both faſt and true; […]

• tort law
• torts (“synonym of tort law”)

From Middle English tort, torte (“contorted, crooked; twisted”),[3] from Old French tort, torte (“crooked; twisted”), or from its etymon Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”):[4] see further at etymology 1.

tort

1. (obsolete) Twisted.
   • 1569, Richard Grafton, “Edwarde the Seconde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 210:

     And the firſt that came and gaue them moſt comfort was Henry Erle of Lãcaſter with yͤ wrie neck, called Tort coll [torticollis], who was brother to Thomas Erle of Lãcaſter yͭ was behedded, as ye haue heard before, who was a right vertuous & good knight as after ye ſhal here.

A variant of tart.[5][6]

tort (comparative more tort, superlative most tort)

1. (British, dialectal) Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”)

A variant of taut.[5][7]

tort (comparative torter, superlative tortest) (British, dialectal, obsolete)

1. Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”)
   • 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Initial, Dæmonic, and Celestial Love”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, 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.

2. (nautical) Of a boat: watertight.

Clipping of tortoise.

tort (plural torts)

1. (slang) Clipping of tortoise.

Clipping of tortoiseshell.

tort (plural torts)

1. (slang) Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings”); a tortie.

• tort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ROTT, Rott, TRTO, Trot, trot

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtɔɾt]
• 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

Inherited 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 (accusative suffix)

• 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 oblique singular, 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.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: tort

tort m inan (diminutive torcik, related adjective tortowy)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /tort/

Inherited 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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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