cortinha

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /koɾˈtiɲa/

Etymology 1

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

As no modern descendant has */n/,[1] the medieval attestations with single ⟨n⟩ may merely reflect orthographic confusion with etymology 2, which did have a genuine /ɲ~n/ variation.

Alternative forms
  • cortinna, cortiinna, cortynna
  • cortina, cortyna

Noun

cortinha f

  1. plot of land for growing crops (usually enclosed)
  2. good-quality land
Descendants
  • Galician: cortiña, cortía, curtiña
  • Portuguese: cortinha

References
  1. “cortiña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Noun

cortinha f

  1. Alternative form of cortina (“curtain”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). Equivalent to corte +‎ -inha.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /koɾˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [koɾˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲɐ/ [koχˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃ɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /koɻˈt͡ʃi.ɲa/

  • Homophone: curtinha (Portugal)
  • Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧nha

Noun

cortinha f (plural cortinhas)

  1. (dialectal) vegetable garden
  2. Diminutive of corte

Derived terms
  • cortinhal m
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