corte

From Latin cōrtem, accusative of cōrs, shortened version of Latin cohors (“court; enclosure”).

corte f (plural cortes)

1. court
2. courtyard

corte m (plural cortes)

1. cut, haircut
2. cutter

Deverbal from cortar or borrowed from Spanish corte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾte̝/

corte m (plural cortes)

1. a cut
2. a cutting edge

From Old Galician-Portuguese corte (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cōrtem, accusative of cōrs, shortened version of Latin cohors (“court; enclosure”). The traditional meaning, stable, is already attested in 10th century, in local Medieval Latin documents. The meaning Royal court is attested in the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾte̝/

corte f (plural cortes)

1. stable
   • 1278, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites, editor, Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Deputación, page 36:

     e fagades y casas alí hu deven a estar, celeyro e coziña e corte, e estas casas deven a seer feytas en estes quatro anos primeiros que veẽ.

     and you should build there houses, a barn, kitchen and stable; and this houses must be build during the next four years

2. court (the residence of a sovereign)
3. (figurative, dated) the government
4. (in the plural) the parliament

• cortello (“pigsty”)
• Cortes
• cortiña (“small walled plot of farmland”)

corte

1. inflection of cortar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “corte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “corte”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “corte”, 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), “corte”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “corte”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin cōrtem, shortened version of Latin cohors (“court; enclosure”). Doublet of the borrowing coorte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.te/
• Rhymes: -orte
• Hyphenation: cór‧te

corte f (plural corti)

1. courtyard
2. court

• corte marziale
• cortigiana

• corte in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• corte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• corte in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• corte in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• corte in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• corte in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• certo, recto, torce

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːr.te/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.te/,

cōrte

1. ablative singular of cōrs

corte

1. Alternative form of court

corte f pl

1. feminine plural of curto

Deverbal from cortar.

• Hyphenation: cor‧te

corte m (plural cortes)

1. cut
   1. the act of cutting

      O corte tem de ser preciso. ― The cut needs to be precise.

   2. visible result of a cut (e.g. a wound or damage to an object)

      Tenho um corte no meu dedo! ― I have a cut on my finger!

   3. haircut

      Esse é um corte elegante. ― That is an elegant cut.

   4. (finance) reduction in expenses

      Cortes serão necessários para evitar prejuízo. ― Cuts will be necessary to avoid loss.

2. cutting edge

   Esta faca tem um bom corte. ― This knife has a good cutting edge.

3. (fashion) a particular style or way certain pieces are made

   corte inglês ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Synonym: talhe

4. suspension (the act of stopping a habitual activity or the flow of something)

   Se não pagar a companhia, sofrerá corte de energia. ― If you don't pay the company, you will experience power suspension.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:corte.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: cor‧te

corte

1. inflection of cortar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Old Galician-Portuguese corte, from Latin cōrtem, shortened version of Latin cohors (“court; enclosure”). Doublet of coorte, a borrowing.

• Hyphenation: cor‧te

corte f (plural cortes)

1. a court
2. stable

For quotations using this term, see Citations:corte.

• côrte (superseded)

• → Malayalam: കോടതി (kōṭati)

• “corte”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “corte”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “corte”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “corte”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “corte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Corte (cut)

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Corte (disambiguation)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾte/

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -oɾte
• Syllabification: cor‧te

Deverbal from cortar (“to cut”).

corte m (plural cortes)

1. cut (the act of cutting)
2. cut (the result of cutting)
3. cut (an opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound)

   Synonym: (Latin America) cortada

4. haircut
5. (colloquial) embarrassment

   Synonym: vergüenza

   Me da corte hacerlo.

   I'm embarrassed to do it.

6. style or type

   Hay varios cortes de mediocampista. Necesitamos un mediocampista de corte defensivo, un jugador con un corte parecido al del ghanés Thomas Partey.

   There are many types of midfielder. We need a defensive-type midfielder, a player with a style similar to that of Ghana's Thomas Partey.

7. cross section

   Synonym: sección transversal

   • 1993, Francisco Carrasco Cantos, Geología de la Cueva de Nerja:

     En este trabajo se incluye un mapa geológico que se ha realizado exclusivamente para esta publicación y una serie de cortes geológicos que nos ponen de manifiesto la estructura geológica de la región

     This work contains a geological map made exclusively for this publication and a series of geological cross-sections that explain the geological structure of the region.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

corte

1. inflection of cortar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Inherited from Latin cōrtem, shortened version of Latin cohors (“court; enclosure”). Doublet of the borrowed cohorte.

corte f (plural cortes)

1. court (the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered)

• → Cebuano: korte
• → Tagalog: korte
• → Yogad: korte

• “corte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• cetro, recto, troce, trocé

From Latin curtus.

corte

1. short