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Catalan
Etymology
From Latin hortus.
Pronunciation
Noun
horta f (plural hortes)
- orchard, market garden, vegetable garden
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese orta, from orto, from Latin hortus (“garden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).
Pronunciation
Noun
horta f (plural hortas)
- kitchen garden, vegetable garden
- Synonyms: cortiña, eixido, horto, quintal
References
- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “orta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “horta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “horta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “horta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “horta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese orta, from orto, from Latin hortus (“garden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).
Noun
horta f (plural hortas)
- kitchen garden (garden for growing fruit, vegetables and/or herbs)
- Synonyms: horto, quintal
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
horta
- inflection of hortar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative