English

Noun

Cortina ‎(plural Cortinas)

1. A British family car from around the 1970s

Italian

Proper noun

Cortina ?

1. Cortina d'Ampezzo, small alpine town in the province of Belluno

Spanish

Proper noun

Cortina

1. A surname​.

English

Noun

cortina

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

Asturian

Noun

cortina f ‎(plural cortines)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

Catalan

Noun

cortina f ‎(plural cortines)

1. curtain

Italian

Noun

cortina f ‎(plural cortine)

1. curtain

Derived terms

• La cortina di ferro - The Iron Curtain
• oltrecortina

Anagrams

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

Latin

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, Vergil, 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.

Inflection

First declension.

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

Occitan

Noun

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

Old Provençal

Etymology

Latin cortina.

Adjective

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

1. curtain

Descendants

• Catalan: cortina
• Occitan: cortina

References

• (fr)(de) cortina in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)

Portuguese

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)

Derived terms

• cortina de ferro, cortina de fumaça

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

cortina f ‎(plural cortinas)

1. curtain

See also

• celosía f
• persiana f
• telón m