cortina
See also: Cortina
English
See also
Aragonese
Etymology
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References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cortina”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Catalan
Pronunciation
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /korˈti.na/
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na
Derived terms
- La cortina di ferro - The Iron Curtain
- oltrecortina
Latin
Etymology
Sometimes imputed to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), but dubious.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /korˈtiː.na/, [kɔrˈtiː.na]
Noun
cortīna f (genitive cortīnae); first declension
- cauldron, kettle
- 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.
- vix ea fatus eram: tremere omnia visa repente,/liminaque laurusque dei, totusque moveri/mons circum et mugire adytis cortina reclusis.
- (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
Descendants
- English: 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, 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
Old Occitan
Adjective
cortina f (oblique plural cortinas, nominative singular cortina, nominative plural cortinas)
References
- von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “cortina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 1236
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese cortina, cortinha, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”), from cortem, accusative singular of cors (“enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /koɻ.ˈt͡ʃi.na/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuɾ.ˈti.nɐ/
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na
Spanish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), from Latin cohors (“court, enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /korˈtina/, [korˈt̪ina]
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na
Derived terms
- (diminutive cortinilla)
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