kortteli

== Finnish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Swedish kvartel, variant of kvarter, from Middle Low German kwartēl, from Medieval Latin quartārium, from Latin quārtus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkortːeli/, [ˈko̞rt̪ːe̞li] Rhymes: -ortːeli Syllabification(key): kort‧te‧li Hyphenation(key): kort‧te‧li === Noun === kortteli block, city block (group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets) (in compounds) local, neighbourhood (used of service establishments serving a small area in a city) korttelikuppila ― the neighbourhood pub block (distance from one street to another in a city) (historical) Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled one fourth of a kyynärä or half a foot; approximately 0.148 meters Synonym: vaaksa (historical) Russian unit of length, equal to 0.1778 meters (historical) unit of volume, equal to 0.32715 liters (dialectal, dated) mug of roughly this volume ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (distance btw. streets): kadunväli (Russian unit of length): setvertti, venäläinen kortteli ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “kortteli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023