horta

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hortus.

Pronunciation

Noun

horta f (plural hortes)

  1. 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)

  1. kitchen garden, vegetable garden
    Synonyms: cortiña, eixido, horto, quintal

References

  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “orta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “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

 

  • Homophone: Horta
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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)

  1. kitchen garden (garden for growing fruit, vegetables and/or herbs)
    Synonyms: horto, quintal
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

horta

  1. inflection of hortar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative