Cortes

See also: cortes, cortés, cortès, and cortês

English

Etymology 1

From Spanish Cortés.

Proper noun

Cortes (plural Corteses or Cortes)

1. A surname from Spanish, variant of Cortez

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Cortes

1. plural of Corte

See also

• Cort
• Corte
• Cortez

 

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• Cortez — surname

Etymology

From Spanish Cortés, descriptive surname from cortés (“polite”). Compare Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with -ez (patronymic suffix).

For the municipality (formerly named Pamingwitan), multiple theories exist:

• Named after Cortés, a village in Navarre, Spain
• Named in honor of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztec Empire.
• From cortésimo

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Cor‧tes
• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtes/, [kɔɾ̪ˈt̪is̪]

Proper noun

Cortés

1. a surname from Spanish: Cortes, Cortés
2. Cortes (a municipality of Bohol, Philippines)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cortes.

Spanish

Etymology

A proper noun usage of cortes (“courts, chambers”) from Vulgar Latin cōrtēs, plural of cōrs, cōrtis, a short form via syncope of Latin cohortem (“court; enclosure”) from co- +‎ hortus (“garden, country house, villa”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”) from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾtes/ [ˈkoɾ.t̪es]
• Rhymes: -oɾtes
• Syllabification: Cor‧tes

Proper noun

Cortes f pl

1. any of several legislative assemblies of Spain and Portugal; parliamentary chambers which exercise the power to craft legislation and control the actions of government as elected representatives of the public or, historically, in an advisory role to a reigning monarch

Derived terms

• Cortes Generales

 

Further reading

• “corte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014