cortado

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cortado (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹˈtɑdoʊ/

Noun

cortado (plural cortados)

1. A cup of espresso served with warm milk.

Anagrams

• cat door

Etymology

Past participle of cortar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.ˈta.ðu/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ta‧do

Adjective

cortado m (feminine singular cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas, comparable)

1. cut
2. chopped

Verb

cortado m (feminine singular cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. masculine singular past participle of cortar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korˈtado/, [korˈt̪aðo]

Adjective

cortado (feminine singular cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. (said of a writing style) choppy, disconnected
2. chopped
3. adjusted, proportioned
4. thickened, coagulated
5. shy
6. (heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess

   Synonym: proporcionado

Noun

cortado m (plural cortados)

1. A coffee or espresso with a small amount of warm milk added.

   Synonyms: cortadito, marrón (Venezuela)

Verb

cortado

1. Past participle of cortar.

Further reading

• “cortado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• cortado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es