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cotta

See also: čotta and Cotta

English

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Etymology 1

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From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).

Noun

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cotta (plural cottas)

  1. A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
    • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:
      ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
  2. A kind of coarse woolen blanket.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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cotta (plural cottas)

  1. Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”)

See also

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terms etymologically unrelated

Italian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French cotte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Noun

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cotta f (plural cotte)

  1. surplice, cassock, tabard
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From cotto (“cooked”), past participle of cuocere.

Adjective

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cotta

  1. feminine singular of cotto

Noun

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cotta f (plural cotte)

  1. crush (infatuation)
    Ho una cotta per te. ― I have a crush on you.
  2. batch (for a kiln or oven)

Further reading

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  • cotta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • cotta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • còtta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cotta f (genitive cottae); first declension[1][2][3]

  1. undercoat, tunic

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cotta cottae
Genitive cottae cottārum
Dative cottae cottīs
Accusative cottam cottās
Ablative cottā cottīs
Vocative cotta cottae

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “cota”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 259
  2. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cottus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 278
  3. ^ cotta 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)
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