cort

See also: чёрт

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cōrtem, from cohors, cohortem. Compare Occitan cort, French court. Doublet of cohort, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkoɾt]
• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

Noun

cort f (plural corts)

1. pen, stable, sty (enclosure for livestock)
2. (by extension) sty (dirty place)
3. court (residence of a sovereign)
4. court (body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign)
5. court, courthouse (place where justice is administered)

   Synonym: tribunal

6. court (tribunal established for the administration of justice)

   Synonym: tribunal

Derived terms

• cort suprema
• cortejar
• cortès
• fer la cort
• Les Corts

 

Related terms

• cortesà

Further reading

• “cort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

cort

1. short

Middle English

Noun

cort

1. Alternative form of court

Old French

Etymology

From Latin cōrtem, earlier cohortem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾt/
• Rhymes: -urt

Noun

cort oblique singular, f (oblique plural corz or cortz, nominative singular cort, nominative plural corz or cortz)

1. court (of a monarch)

Related terms

• cortois
• cortoisie

Descendants

• French: cour
• → Middle English: court, cort, corte, cortt, courte, curt, curth
  • English: court (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: court, coort

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾt/

Noun

cort f (plural cortes)

1. Apocopic form of corte; court (retinue of a monarch)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 51v:

     […] e fue reẏ de tr̃a de iudea. ⁊ de tr̃a de isrꝉ. e de ihrꝉm e de ſamaria e fazia cadaun dia grãt eſpenſa e tenia g̃nt cort.

     […] And he was king of the land of Judah and of the land of Israel, and of Jerusalem and of Samaria. And every day he incurred great expense and had a numerous court.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek κόρτη (kórti), ultimately from Latin cors or cohors. Doublet of the inherited curte, as well as the later borrowing cohortă.

Noun

cort n (plural corturi)

1. tent

Declension

Declension of cort

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cort	cortul	(niște) corturi	corturile
genitive/dative	(unui) cort	cortului	(unor) corturi	corturilor
vocative	cortule		corturilor