tort

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɔːt/
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• General-American: tô(ɹ)t
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• General-American: /tɔɹt/
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• homophone: torte
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• homophone: taught
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• homophone: taut (non-rhotic)
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
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• CMU ARPABET: T AO1 R T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English tort, torte (“contorted, crooked; twisted”), from Old French tort, torte (“crooked; twisted”), or from its etymon Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”): see further at etymology 1.

A variant of tart.

A variant of taut.

From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), 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”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkw- (“to spin; to turn”). Cognates * Galician torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong, tort”) * Italian torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) injustice, wrong”) * Norwegian Bokmål tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions) * Norwegian Nynorsk tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions) * Occitan tort * Old French tort (modern French tort) * Portuguese torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong”) * Spanish tuerto (“injury, offence”)

Clipping of tortoise.

Clipping of tortoiseshell.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: الضرر في القانون — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Bengali: টর্ট (ṭorṭo) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Catalan: delicte civil — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Chinese Mandarin: 侵權行為 /侵权行为 (qīnquán xíngwéi) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Czech: přečin — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Danish: erstatningsret — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Dutch: onrechtmatige daad — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Finnish: delikti — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Finnish: vahingoittaminen — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Finnish: vahingonteko — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• French: délit civil — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Galician: torto — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Georgian: დელიქტი (delikṭi) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• German: unerlaubte Handlung — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Greek: αδικοπραξία (adikopraxía) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Hebrew: דיני נזיקין — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Hindi: अपकृत्य (apkŕtya) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Hungarian: vétség — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Hungarian: károkozás — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Hungarian: sérelem — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Hungarian: magánjogi vétkes cselekmény — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Indonesian: pelanggaran — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Italian: illecito civile — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Japanese: 不法行為 (fuhō kōi) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Kannada: ಅಪಕೃತ್ಯ (apakṛtya) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Korean: 불법행위 (bulbeophaeng'wi) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Lithuanian: deliktų teisė — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Macedonian: пре́кршок (prékršok) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Macedonian: пра́во на обесштету́вање (právo na obesštetúvanje) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Malay: tort — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Nepali: अपकृत्य (apakr̥tya) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Norwegian Bokmål: tort — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Norwegian Bokmål: erstatningsrett — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tort — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Persian: شبهجرم — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Polish: delikt cywilny — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Polish: czyn niedozwolony — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Portuguese: ato ilícito — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Punjabi: ਟੋਰਟ (ṭoraṭ) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Romansh: act nunlubì — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Sinhalese: තෝරත (tōrata) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Spanish: delito civil — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Spanish: agravio extracontractual — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Spanish: tort — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Spanish: entuerto — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Swedish: ersättningsrätt — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Tagalog: pamiminsalang sinadya — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Tajik: шабеҳи ҷурм (šabeh-i jurm) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Tamil: பொல்லாக்கு (pollākku) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Thai: ละเมิด (lá-mə̂ət) — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Turkish: haksız fiil — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury
• Welsh: camwedd — wrongful act, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury