toartă
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toartă¹
Where it comes from
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 toarte · toartă · toarta · toartele
- handle
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hook
Similar: cârlig
Toartă²
Where it comes from
From toartă.
proper noun lui Toartă
- a surname
Talk about this word "toartă." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/toart%C4%83. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. toartă. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ro/toart%C4%83 "toartă." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/toart%C4%83.Cite this
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title = {toartă},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
