cortinha

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtiɲa/

Etymology 1

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

As no modern descendant has */n/, the medieval attestations with single ⟨n⟩ may merely reflect orthographic confusion with etymology 2, which did have a genuine /ɲ~n/ variation.

Alternative forms

• cortinna, cortiinna, cortynna
• cortina, cortyna

Noun

cortinha f (plural cortinhas)

1. plot of land for growing crops (usually enclosed)
2. good-quality land

Descendants

• Galician: cortiña, cortía, curtiña
• Portuguese: cortinha

References

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

Etymology 2

Noun

cortinha f (plural cortinhas)

1. alternative form of cortina (“curtain”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). Equivalent to corte +‎ -inha.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [koɾˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [koχˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /koɻˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [koɻˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃi.ɲa/ [kohˈt͡ʃi.ɲa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈti.ɲɐ/

• Homophone: curtinha (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧nha

Noun

cortinha f (plural cortinhas)

1. (dialectal) vegetable garden
2. diminutive of corte

Derived terms

• cortinhal m

Further reading

• “cortinha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cortinha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026