cortina

Latin cortina (“veil”)

cortina

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

• velum

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

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cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cortina”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

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

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain

• IPA^(key): /korˈti.na/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. curtain

• La cortina di ferro - The Iron Curtain
• oltrecortina

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /korˈtiː.na/, [kɔrˈtiː.na]

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

First-declension noun.

• cortīnipotēns

• English: cortina
• Translingual: Cortinarius

• 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

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Latin cortina.

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

1. curtain

• Catalan: cortina
• Occitan: cortina

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

From Old Portuguese cortina, cortinha, from Late Latin cortīna (“curtain”), from Latin cortīna (“cauldron”), from cortem, accusative singular of cors (“enclosure”).

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻ.ˈt͡ʃi.na/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.ˈti.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

• cortina de ferro, cortina de fumaça

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

• IPA^(key): /korˈtina/, [korˈt̪ina]
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

• (diminutive cortinilla)

• celosía f
• persiana f
• telón m