cortina

See also: Cortina

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cortina (“veil”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Noun

cortina (plural cortinas)

1. (mycology) A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.
   • 2004, Ursula Peintner, Jean-Marc Moncalvo & Rytas Vilgalys, “Toward a better understanding of the infrageneric relationships in Cortinarius (Agaricales, Basidiomycota)”, in Mycologia, volume 96, number 5, →DOI, page 1054:

     /Telamonia morphologically circumscribes a homogenous group of Cortinarii. Hygrophanous pilei, the lack of viscid or gelatinous veils and well-developed cortinas characterize most species.

Derived terms

• cortinal

 

See also

• velum

Anagrams

• C-ration, Nicotra, anticor, carotin, nicator

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

Asturian

Etymology

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

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”). Compare Occitan cortina, French courtine.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈti.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kurˈti.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /koɾˈti.na/

• Audio

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Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain

References

• “cortina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Alternative forms

• curtiña

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. Probably from Old Spanish cortina, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from cortem, accusative singular of cors (“enclosure”). Doublet of cortiña (“garden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koɾˈtinɐ]

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain (cloth)
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica. page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo

     I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling

References

• “cortina” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cortina” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cortina” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cortina” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cortina” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: cor‧tì‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. curtain

Derived terms

• cortina di ferro (“Iron Curtain”)
• oltrecortina

Anagrams

• Nicotra, cantori, cartoni, contrai, cornati, cratoni, incarto, incartò, notrica, ricanto, ricantò, riconta, trancio, tranciò, troncai

Latin

Etymology

Sometimes imputed to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), but dubious.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /korˈtiː.na/, [kɔrˈt̪iːnä]
• (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, Aeneis 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) 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: cortiña, 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

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Old Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. curtain

Descendants

• Occitan: cortina

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cortina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1236

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cortina, cortinha, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”), from cortem (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ], /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuhˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ], /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuhˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/, /kuɾˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [koχˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ], /kuʁˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ [kuχˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈt͡ʃi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈti.nɐ/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuhˈti.nɐ/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuɹˈt͡ʃi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Derived terms

• acortinar
• cortina de ferro
• cortina de fumaça
• encortinar

 

Further reading

• “cortina” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/ [koɾˈt̪i.na]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧na

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

   Synonym: telón

Derived terms

• Cortina de Hierro
• cortina de humo
• cortinaje
• cortinilla

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: kurtina
• → Cebuano: kortina
• → Sambali: kortina
• → Tagalog: kurtina
• → Yogad: kurtina

Further reading

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