cortiça

Portuguese

cortiça

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”).

Pronunciation

(South Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻ.ˈt͡ʃi.sa/
(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.ˈti.sɐ/
Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧ça

Noun

cortiça f (uncountable)

cork (bark of the cork oak)

Related terms

rolha, sobreiro
cortíceo, córtice, córtex, cortiço

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