cort

See also: чёрт

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cōrtem, from cohors, cohortem. Compare Occitan cort, French court. Doublet of cohort, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkoɾt]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

Noun

cort f (plural corts)

1. pen, stable, sty (enclosure for livestock)
2. (by extension) sty (dirty place)
3. court (residence of a sovereign)
4. court (body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign)
5. court, courthouse (place where justice is administered)

   Synonym: tribunal

6. court (tribunal established for the administration of justice)

   Synonym: tribunal

Derived terms

• cort suprema
• cortejar
• cortès
• fer la cort
• Les Corts

Related terms

• cortesà

Further reading

• “cort”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

cort

1. short

Middle English

Noun

cort

1. alternative form of court

Old French

Etymology

From Latin cōrtem, earlier cohortem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾt/
• Rhymes: -urt

Noun

cort oblique singular, f (oblique plural corz or cortz, nominative singular cort, nominative plural corz or cortz)

1. court (of a monarch)

Related terms

• cortois
• cortoisie

Descendants

• Middle French: court
  • French: cour
    • Haitian Creole: lakou (with la)
      • → English: lakou
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kur
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kur
• → Middle English: court, cort, corte, cortt, courte, curt, curth
  • English: court (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: court, coort
  • → Middle Irish: cúirt
    • Irish: cúirt
    • Manx: cooyrt
    • Scottish Gaelic: cùirt

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾt/

Noun

cort f (plural cortes)

1. apocopic form of corte; court (retinue of a monarch)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 51v:

     […] e fue reẏ de tr̃a de iudea. ⁊ de tr̃a de isrꝉ. e de ihrꝉm e de ſamaria e fazia cadaun dia grãt eſpenſa e tenia g̃nt cort.

     […] And he was king of the land of Judah and of the land of Israel, and of Jerusalem and of Samaria. And every day he incurred great expense and had a numerous court.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek κόρτη (kórti), ultimately from Latin cors or cohors. Doublet of the inherited curte, as well as the later borrowing cohortă.

Noun

cort n (plural corturi)

1. tent

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cort	cortul		corturi	corturile
genitive-dative	cort	cortului		corturi	corturilor
vocative	cortule			corturilor

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cord

Etymology

Borrowed from English cord.

Noun

cort m (plural cyrt or cyrts, diminutive cortyn or corten)

1. cord

Mutation

Mutated forms of cort

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cort	gort	nghort	chort

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cort”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies