cortiça
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”). Doublet of cortíceo.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧ça
Noun edit
cortiça f (usually uncountable, plural cortiças)