cotta

See also: čotta and Cotta

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).

Noun

cotta (plural cottas)

  1. A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
    • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 131:
      ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
  2. A kind of coarse woollen blanket.

Italian

Adjective

cotta f

  1. Feminine singular of adjective cotto.

Noun

cotta f (plural cotte)

  1. surplice, cassock, tabard
  2. crush (infatuation)
  3. batch (for a kiln or oven)

Derived terms

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkot.ta/, [ˈkɔt.ta]

Noun

cotta f (genitive cottae); first declension[1][2][3]

  1. undercoat, tunic

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cotta cottae
Genitive cottae cottārum
Dative cottae cottīs
Accusative cottam cottās
Ablative cottā cottīs
Vocative cotta cottae

Descendants

References
  1. Blaise, Albert (1975), “cota”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (in Latin, French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 259
  2. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “cottus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 278
  3. cotta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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