cortina

Borrowed from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”). Doublet of curtain.

• Rhymes: -aɪnə

cortina (plural cortinas)

1. (mycology) A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.
   • 2004, Ursula Peintner, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, Rytas Vilgalys, “Toward a better understanding of the infrageneric relationships in Cortinarius (Agaricales, Basidiomycota)”, in Mycologia, volume 96, number 5, →DOI, page 1054:

     /Telamonia morphologically circumscribes a homogenous group of Cortinarii. Hygrophanous pilei, the lack of viscid or gelatinous veils and well-developed cortinas characterize most species.

• velum

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

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧na
• Rhymes: -ina

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cortina”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “cortina”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/ [koɾˈt̪i.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧na

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kurˈti.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koɾˈti.na]

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Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. curtain

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”).

cortina f (plural cortines)

1. pigsty

• “cortina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• curtiña

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortina~cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/ [koɾˈt̪i.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cortina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cortina”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cortina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cortina”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cortina”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /korˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: cor‧tì‧na

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. curtain

• cortina di ferro (“Iron Curtain”)
• oltrecortina

• cortina¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Classical Latin cortīna (“sacred tripod of Apollo”).

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. sacred tripod of Apollo

• cortina² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”).

cortina f (plural cortine)

1. adjacent territory to a town

• Nicotra, cantori, cartoni, contrai, cornati, cratoni, incarto, incartò, notrica, ricanto, ricantò, riconta, trancio, tranciò, troncai

Uncertain. Sometimes attributed to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“turn; bend”), via a hypothetical passive past participle *kṛto- (“bent”), but this is dubious. Attested from Plautus onward.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔrˈtiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [korˈtiː.na]

cortīna f (genitive cortīnae); first declension

1. cauldron, kettle
2. the sacred tripod of Apollo (in the form of a cauldron)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 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 scarcely uttered these words when suddenly everything seemed to shake—the holy thresholds, the god's laurel tree—and the entire mountain stirred, and as the temple's inner sanctum was revealed the sacred tripod bellowed.

First-declension noun.

• cortīnipotēns

• → Italian: cortina
• → Middle French: courtine

From cōrt- (“courtyard”) +‎ -īna, a calque of Ancient Greek αὐλαία (aulaía, “curtain”) < αὐλή (aulḗ, “courtyard”). First attested in the fourth century CE.^[2] Unrelated to Etymology 1.^[3]

• curtīna

cōrtīna f (genitive cōrtīnae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. curtain

From cōrt- (“yard; enclosure”) +‎ -īna (late 'vulgar' diminutive ending). Attested from at least ca. 560 CE (Paulus Galeatensis).^[4]

• curtīna, curtīnum, curtānea

cōrtīna f (genitive cōrtīnae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. bit of enclosed land (for various purposes)

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

From Old Occitan cortina, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

• IPA^(key): /kuɾˈtino/

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cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

From Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

The form with /ɲ/ ⟨nh⟩ represents the regular native outcome. The form with ⟨n⟩ /n/ appears to reflect influence either from Old Spanish cortina or the original Latin. Either way, it provided a means of avoiding homophony with etymology 2.

• cortinha (also common)

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/, /koɾˈtiɲa/

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica. page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo

     I bequeath this bed of mine as it is, together with its bedding, curtains, and canopy

• Galician: cortina, curtiña
• Portuguese: cortina

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cortina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. alternative form of cortinha (“plot of land”)

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

• IPA^(key): /kuɾˈtina/

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

1. curtain

• Occitan: cortina

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cortina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1236

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/

From Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”). First attested in Berceo.

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

• Spanish: cortina (see there for further descendants)

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “cortina”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 216

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). First attested in 1118.

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. bit of enclosed land

• Spanish: cortina (regional)

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “corte”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[3] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 214

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortina~cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuhˈti.nɐ/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuɹˈt͡ʃi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧na

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)

• → Gujarati: કુરતની (kurtanī)
• → Konkani: कुर्तीन (kurtīn)

• “cortina”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cortina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtina/ [koɾˈt̪i.na]

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧na

Inherited from Old Spanish cortina, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”).

cortina f (plural cortinas)

1. curtain

   Synonym: telón

• → Central Bikol: kurtina
• → Cebuano: kortina
• → Sambali: kortina
• → Tagalog: kortina
• → Yogad: kurtina

Inherited from Old Spanish cortina, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). Found in Salamanca and Cespedosa de Tormes.

cortina f (plural cortinas) (regional, Spain)

1. bit of enclosed land

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “corte”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[4] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 214

• “cortina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025