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Galician
Etymology
Attested circa 1390. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koɾˈtiθa̝/, (western) /koɾˈtisa̝/
Noun
cortiza f (uncountable)
- bark; husk
1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:ẽna almẽdra son tres cousas: a cortiça da çima et a casca et a vianda de dentro- there are three things in an almond: the external husk, the peel, and the viand inside
- Synonym: casca
- cork (bark of the cork oak)
- item made of cork
- beehive
- Synonym: covo
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cortiça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cortiç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “cortiza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cortiza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cortiza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.