toartă

See also: toarta and Toartă

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin torta, feminine of tortus, perfect passive participle of torqueō. Or from the feminine of Romanian tort as the past participle of toarce, as early handles may have been made from twisted string, fiber, or rope. Compare Calabrian torta ("thread used to connect the yoke and the main shaft of a plow"), Sicilian torta (“beating”).

Noun

toartă f (plural toarte)

1. handle
2. hook

   Synonym: cârlig

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	toartă	toarta		toarte	toartele
genitive-dative	toarte	toartei		toarte	toartelor
vocative	toartă, toarto			toartelor

Related terms

• toarce
• tort
• turtă