cortado

cortado

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cortado (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹˈtɑdoʊ/

Noun

cortado (plural cortados)

1. A cup of espresso served with warm milk.
   • 2009, Chris Haslam, Twelve-Step Fandango, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 93:

     We ordered a couple of shots and a couple of cortados and sat by the narrow, unglazed arch that overlooked the reservoir. 'To Yvan,' he declared, and I raised my aguardiente to his, chinking glasses to the insincere memory of [Yvan].

   • 2021, Florencia Mallon, Beyond the Ties of Blood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     " […] and a couple of espressos. Make the lady's a cortado, you know, the way you add just a touch of steamed milk."

Translations

espresso with milk

Chinese: Mandarin: 可塔朵 (kětǎduǒ) Finnish: cortado Italian: caffè macchiato m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of cortar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈta.du/ [kohˈta.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈta.du/ [kohˈta.du]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈta.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈta.du/ [koχˈta.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈta.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈta.du/ [kuɾˈta.ðu]

• Hyphenation: cor‧ta‧do

Adjective

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. cut
2. chopped

Participle

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. past participle of cortar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtado/ [koɾˈt̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: cor‧ta‧do

Adjective

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. (said of a writing style) choppy, disconnected
2. chopped
3. adjusted, proportioned
4. thickened, coagulated
5. shy
6. (heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess

   Synonym: proporcionado

Noun

cortado m (plural cortados)

1. a coffee or espresso with a small amount of warm milk added

   Synonyms: cortadito, (Venezuela) marrón

Derived terms

• cortadito (diminutive)

Participle

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. past participle of cortar

Further reading

• “cortado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• cortado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es