cortina
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cortina (“veil”).
Noun
cortina
See also
Anagrams
Aragonese
Etymology
From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).
Noun
cortina f (plural cortinas)
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cortina”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Etymology
From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).
Noun
cortina f (plural cortines)
- curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)
Catalan
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 170: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cortina f (plural cortines)
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:it-pronunciation at line 350: With more than two vowels and an unrecognized suffix, stress must be explicitly given: cortina
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na
Noun
cortina f (plural cortine)
Derived terms
- La cortina di ferro - The Iron Curtain
- oltrecortina
Anagrams
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
- cauldron, kettle
- 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.
- vix ea fatus eram: tremere omnia visa repente,/liminaque laurusque dei, totusque moveri/mons circum et mugire adytis cortina reclusis.
- (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
Descendants
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
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan cortina, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).
Noun
cortina f (plural cortinas)
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).
Adjective
cortina f (oblique plural cortinas, nominative singular cortina, nominative plural cortinas)
Descendants
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cortina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 20: Autres langues, page 1236
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
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "South Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /koɻ.ˈt͡ʃi.na/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "PT" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /kuɾ.ˈti.nɐ/
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na
Noun
cortina f (plural s)
- curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cortina f (plural cortinas)
Derived terms
- (diminutive cortinilla)
- cortina de humo
See also
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals
- Aragonese terms inherited from Late Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Late Latin
- Aragonese terms inherited from Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Latin
- Aragonese lemmas
- Aragonese nouns
- Aragonese feminine nouns
- Asturian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Late Latin
- Asturian terms inherited from Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- Catalan terms inherited from Late Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Late Latin
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin terms with quotations
- Late Latin
- Ecclesiastical Latin
- la:Containers
- la:Cookware and bakeware
- Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan
- Occitan terms derived from Old Occitan
- Occitan terms inherited from Late Latin
- Occitan terms derived from Late Latin
- Occitan terms inherited from Latin
- Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Occitan lemmas
- Occitan nouns
- Occitan feminine nouns
- Occitan countable nouns
- Old Occitan terms inherited from Late Latin
- Old Occitan terms derived from Late Latin
- Old Occitan terms inherited from Latin
- Old Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Old Occitan lemmas
- Old Occitan nouns
- Old Occitan feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Portuguese lemmas
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- Portuguese countable nouns
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- pt:Furniture
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ina
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns