kortteli

Borrowed from Swedish kvartel, variant of kvarter, from Middle Low German kwartēl, from Medieval Latin quartārium, from Latin quārtus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkortːeli/,
• Rhymes: -ortːeli
• Hyphenation^(key): kort‧te‧li

kortteli

1. block, city block (group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets)

   Kävelen vain korttelin ympäri.

   I'm just going for a walk around the block.

2. (in compounds) local, neighbourhood (used of service establishments serving a small area in a city)

   korttelikuppila ― the neighbourhood pub

3. block (distance from one street to another in a city)
4. (historical) Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled half a foot or one fourth of a kyynärä = 0.148 meters

   Synonym: vaaksa

5. (historical) Russian unit of length, which equalled 0.1778 meters
6. (historical) unit of volume, which equalled 0.32715 liters
7. (dialectal, dated) mug of roughly this volume

• (distance btw. streets): kadunväli
• (Russian unit of length): setvertti, venäläinen kortteli

• “kortteli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02