Talk:Tarte (surname)
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Charles Edwin Shipp in topic Is Tarte German?
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Is Tarte German? edit
Besides being someone's surname (last name) does 'Tarte' have a meaning in German? -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 23:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- A Google-search on 'Tarte' (and excluding -'cosmetics') yields: "The derivation is from the pre 10th century word 'tarte' meaning a baker, one who specialised in pastries and tarts, and equivalent to the modern patiserrie."[1] from the SurnameDB. -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 23:53, 2 September 2015 (UTC) -- PS: Derivatives moved (I think) from France to Germany and England.
- Under the Wikipedia article 'foods named after people' you will find:
- Tarte Tatin – Stephine Tatin (1838–1917) and Caroline Tatin (1847–1911). In French, the tarte is known as à la Demoiselles Tatin for the sisters who ran the Hotel Tatin in Lamotte Beuvron, France. Stephine allegedly invented the upside-down tart accidentally in the fall of 1898, but the pastry may be much older.
- Tarte is French for a certain kind of pastry, a tart. The German linguistic equivalent is torte, but in substance they are very different. -- Michael Bednarek (talk)
- Under the Wikipedia article 'foods named after people' you will find: