cortinha

== Old Galician-Portuguese == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /koɾˈtiɲa/ === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). As no modern descendant has */n/, the medieval attestations with single ⟨n⟩ may merely reflect orthographic confusion with etymology 2, which did have a genuine /ɲ~n/ variation. ==== Alternative forms ==== cortinna, cortiinna, cortynna cortina, cortyna ==== Noun ==== cortinha f (plural cortinhas) plot of land for growing crops (usually enclosed) good-quality land ===== Descendants ===== Galician: cortiña, cortía, curtiña Portuguese: cortinha ==== References ==== Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cortinha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Universo Cantigas - "cortinha" === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== cortinha f (plural cortinhas) alternative form of cortina (“curtain”) == Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). Equivalent to corte +‎ -inha. === Pronunciation === Homophone: curtinha (Portugal) Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧nha === Noun === cortinha f (plural cortinhas) (dialectal) vegetable garden diminutive of corte ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “cortinha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “cortinha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026