cortejar

From cort +‎ -ejar.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

cortejar (first-person singular present cortejo, first-person singular preterite cortegí, past participle cortejat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to court, to woo

   Synonym: fer la cort

• “cortejar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowing from Italian corteggiare.

• Hyphenation: cor‧te‧jar

cortejar (first-person singular present cortejo, first-person singular preterite cortejei, past participle cortejado)

1. (transitive) to court (to attempt to win someone’s affections)
2. (transitive, zoology) to court (to engage in behaviour leading to mating)

Borrowed from Italian corteggiare.

• IPA^(key): /koɾteˈxaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cor‧te‧jar

cortejar (first-person singular present cortejo, first-person singular preterite cortejé, past participle cortejado)

1. to court, woo

• “cortejar”, 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