cortina

See also: Cortina

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cortina (“veil”).

Noun

cortina

1. A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. curtain

Derived terms

• La cortina di ferro - The Iron Curtain
• oltrecortina

Anagrams

• cantori
• cartoni
• contrai
• incarto, incartò
• 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: 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”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

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Old Occitan

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

1. curtain

Descendants

• Catalan: cortina
• 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

• IPA^(key): /koɻ.ˈt͡ʃi.na/
• IPA^(key): /kuɾ.ˈti.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural s)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Derived terms

• cortina de ferro, cortina de fumaça

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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
• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Derived terms

• (diminutive cortinilla)
• cortina de humo

See also

• celosía f
• persiana f
• telón m