cortina

See also: Cortina

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”). Doublet of curtain.

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

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧na
• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cortina”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “cortina”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/ [koɾˈt̪i.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. pigsty

References

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• curtiña

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortina~cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cortina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cortina”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. curtain

Derived terms

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

References

• cortina¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Latin cortīna (“sacred tripod of Apollo”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. sacred tripod of Apollo

References

• cortina² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. adjacent territory to a town

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Sometimes attributed to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“turn; bend”), via a hypothetical passive past participle *kṛto- (“bent”), but this is dubious. Attested from Plautus onward.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔrˈtiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [korˈtiː.na]

Noun

cortīna f (genitive cortīnae); first declension

1. cauldron, kettle
2. the sacred tripod of Apollo (in the form of a cauldron)
   • 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 scarcely uttered these words when suddenly everything seemed to shake—the holy thresholds, the god's laurel tree—and the entire mountain stirred, and as the temple's inner sanctum was revealed the sacred tripod bellowed.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cortīna	cortīnae
genitive	cortīnae	cortīnārum
dative	cortīnae	cortīnīs
accusative	cortīnam	cortīnās
ablative	cortīnā	cortīnīs
vocative	cortīna	cortīnae

Derived terms

• cortīnipotēns

Descendants

• → Italian: cortina
• → Middle French: courtine

Etymology 2

From cōrt- (“courtyard”) +‎ -īna, a calque of Ancient Greek αὐλαία (aulaía, “curtain”) < αὐλή (aulḗ, “courtyard”). First attested in the fourth century CE. Unrelated to Etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• curtīna

Noun

cōrtīna f (genitive cōrtīnae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. curtain

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cortina
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Old French: cortine (see there for further descendants)
  • Southern:
    • Catalan: cortina
    • Old Occitan: cortina
      • Occitan: cortina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: cortina
  • Asturian: cortina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cortina, cortinha (also common)
    • Galician: cortina, curtiña
    • Portuguese: cortina
  • Old Spanish: cortina
    • Spanish: cortina (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → English: cortina
• ⇒ Translingual: Cortinarius

Etymology 3

From cōrt- (“yard; enclosure”) +‎ -īna (late 'vulgar' diminutive ending). Attested from at least ca. 560 CE (Paulus Galeatensis).

Alternative forms

• curtīna, curtīnum, curtānea

Noun

cōrtīna f (genitive cōrtīnae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. bit of enclosed land (for various purposes)

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cortina
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: cortina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cortinha, cortinna, cortiinna, cortynna, cortina, cortyna
    • Galician: cortiña, cortía, curtiña
    • Portuguese: cortinha
  • Old Spanish: cortina
    • Spanish: cortina (regional)

Further reading

• “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

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuɾˈtino/

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

The form with /ɲ/ ⟨nh⟩ represents the regular native outcome. The form with ⟨n⟩ /n/ appears to reflect influence either from Old Spanish cortina or the original Latin. Either way, it provided a means of avoiding homophony with etymology 2.

Alternative forms

• cortinha (also common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/, /koɾˈtiɲa/

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain
   • 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 bed of mine as it is, together with its bedding, curtains, and canopy

Descendants

• Galician: cortina, curtiña
• Portuguese: cortina

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cortina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Etymology 2

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. alternative form of cortinha (“plot of land”)

Old Occitan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuɾˈtina/

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 2: C Q K, page 1236

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”). First attested in Berceo.

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Descendants

• Spanish: cortina (see there for further descendants)

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “cortina”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 216

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). First attested in 1118.

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. bit of enclosed land

Descendants

• Spanish: cortina (regional)

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “corte”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[3] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 214

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortina~cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Pronunciation

 

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuhˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ], /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/, /koɾˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuχˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ], /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [koχˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈt͡ʃi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈti.nɐ/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuhˈti.nɐ/
• (Rural Central Brazil) 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 Ferro
• cortina de fumaça
• encortinar

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કુરતની (kurtanī)
• → Konkani: कुर्तीन (kurtīn)

Further reading

• “cortina”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cortina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/ [koɾˈt̪i.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧na

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cortina, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

   Synonym: telón

Derived terms

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

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish cortina, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). Found in Salamanca and Cespedosa de Tormes.

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas) (regional, Spain)

1. bit of enclosed land

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “corte”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[4] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 214

Further reading

• “cortina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024