cortina

Etymology

Latin cortina

Noun

cortina

1. A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.

Anagrams

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

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Noun

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain

Noun

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. curtain

Anagrams

• cantori
• cartoni
• contrai
• incarto, incartò
• riconta
• trancio, tranciò
• troncai

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

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

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

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Etymology

Latin cortina.

Adjective

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

1. curtain

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “cortina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 1236

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

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), from Latin cohors (“court, enclosure”).

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain