tortilla
See also: Tortilla and tortillą
English

flour tortillas (1)

Spanish omelette (2)
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

Spanish omelette

Omelette
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

Spanish omelette

Omelette

Tortilla (flour tortilla)
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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