cortina

See also: Cortina

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cortina (“veil”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Noun

cortina (plural cortinas)

1. (mycology) A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.
   • 2004, Ursula Peintner, Jean-Marc Moncalvo & Rytas Vilgalys, “Toward a better understanding of the infrageneric relationships in Cortinarius (Agaricales, Basidiomycota)”, in Mycologia, volume 96, number 5, →DOI, page 1054:

     /Telamonia morphologically circumscribes a homogenous group of Cortinarii. Hygrophanous pilei, the lack of viscid or gelatinous veils and well-developed cortinas characterize most species.

Derived terms

• cortinal

 

See also

• velum

Anagrams

• C-ration, Nicotra, anticor, carotin, nicator

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cortina”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”). Compare Occitan cortina, French courtine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kurˈti.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koɾˈti.na]

• Audio:

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Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain

References

• “cortina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Alternative forms

• curtiña

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. Probably from Old Spanish cortina, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from cortem, accusative singular of cors (“enclosure”). Doublet of cortiña (“garden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koɾˈtinɐ]

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain (cloth)
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica. page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo

     I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cortina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cortina”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cortina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cortina”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cortina”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: cor‧tì‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. curtain

Derived terms

• cortina di ferro (“Iron Curtain”)
• oltrecortina

Anagrams

• Nicotra, cantori, cartoni, contrai, cornati, cratoni, incarto, incartò, notrica, ricanto, ricantò, riconta, trancio, tranciò, troncai

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Latin

Etymology

Sometimes imputed to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), but dubious.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /korˈtiː.na/, [kɔrˈt̪iːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /korˈti.na/, [korˈt̪iːnä]

Noun

cortīna f (genitive cortīnae); first declension

1. cauldron, kettle
2. the sacred tripod of Apollo, metonymically for the curved seat or covering; Oracle
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.90-92:

     vix ea fatus eram: tremere omnia visa repente,/liminaque laurusque dei, totusque moveri/mons circum et mugire adytis cortina reclusis.

     I had just spoken: everything seemed to shake suddenly,/the threshold and the laurels of the god, and the whole hill/seemed round us to move, and the tripod of the revealed shrine seemed to groan.

3. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) curtain, after the resemblance of the curve of an amphitheatre to a cauldron

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cortīna	cortīnae
Genitive	cortīnae	cortīnārum
Dative	cortīnae	cortīnīs
Accusative	cortīnam	cortīnās
Ablative	cortīnā	cortīnīs
Vocative	cortīna	cortīnae

Derived terms

• cortīnipotēns

Descendants

• Aragonese: cortina
• Asturian: cortina
• → English: cortina
• Italian: cortina
• Old French: cortine
  • → English: curtain
  • French: courtine
• Old Occitan: cortina
  • Catalan: cortina
  • Occitan: cortina
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cortinha, cortina
  • Galician: cortiña, cortina
  • Portuguese: cortina
• Spanish: cortina
• Translingual: Cortinarius

References

• “cortina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cortina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cortina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cortina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cortina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan cortina, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).

Noun

cortina f (oblique plural cortinas, nominative singular cortina, nominative plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Descendants

• Occitan: cortina

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cortina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 20: Autres langues, page 1236

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cortina, cortinha, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”), from cortem, accusative singular of cors (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuhˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuhˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuχˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuɻˈt͡ʃi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈti.nɐ/

• IPA^(key): /kuhˈti.nɐ/
• IPA^(key): /kuɹˈt͡ʃi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Derived terms

• acortinar
• cortina de ferro
• cortina de fumaça
• encortinar

 

Further reading

• “cortina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/ [koɾˈt̪i.na]
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

   Synonym: telón

Derived terms

• cortinaje
• cortinilla
• Cortina de Hierro
• cortina de humo

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: kurtina
• → Cebuano: kortina
• → Sambali: kortina
• → Tagalog: kurtina
• → Yogad: kurtina

Further reading

• “cortina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014