cortiça

Portuguese

cortiça

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”). Doublet of cortíceo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃi.sɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃi.sɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/ [koχˈt͡ʃi.sɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈt͡ʃi.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈti.sɐ/

• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧ça

Noun

cortiça f (usually uncountable, plural cortiças)

1. cork (bark of the cork oak)
2. (botany) cork (tissue between the bark and cambium of woody plants)

   Synonyms: súber, felema

Derived terms

• cortiço

Related terms

• cortíceo, córtice, córtex

See also

• rolha, sobreiro