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English
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).
Noun
cotta (plural cottas)
- A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
- A kind of coarse woolen blanket.
Etymology 2
Noun
cotta (plural cottas)
- Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”)
See also
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French cotte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Noun
cotta f (plural cotte)
- surplice, cassock, tabard
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From cotto (“cooked”), past participle of cuocere.
Adjective
cotta
- feminine singular of cotto
Noun
cotta f (plural cotte)
- crush (infatuation)
- Ho una cotta per te. ― I have a crush on you.
- batch (for a kiln or oven)
Further reading
- cotta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- cotta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- còtta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cotta f (genitive cottae); first declension
- undercoat, tunic
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “cota”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 259
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cottus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 278
- ^ cotta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)