See also: cortes, cortés, cortès, and cortês

English

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Etymology 1

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From Spanish Cortés.

Proper noun

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Cortes (plural Corteses or Cortes)

  1. A surname from Spanish, variant of Cortez

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Cortes

  1. plural of Corte

See also

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Anagrams

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Cebuano

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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:

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Cor‧tes
  • IPA(key): /koɾˈtes/ [koɾ̪ˈt̪is̪]

Proper noun

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Cortés

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

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cortes.

Spanish

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Etymology

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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

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

Proper noun

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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

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