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Italian
Etymology
From Latin Cortōna, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌖𐌓𐌕𐌖𐌍 (curtun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /korˈto.na/
- Rhymes: -ona
- Hyphenation: Cor‧tó‧na
Proper noun
Cortona f
- A small town in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Etruscan 𐌂𐌖𐌓𐌕𐌖𐌍 (curtun).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cortōna f sg (genitive Cortōnae); first declension
- Cortona
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Cortona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cortona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Cortona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Cortona”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- “Cortona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly