cortiça
Portuguese
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cortiça
Etymology
From Old Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”).
Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /koɻ.ˈt͡ʃi.sa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuɾ.ˈti.sɐ/
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧ça
Noun
cortiça f (uncountable)
- cork (bark of the cork oak)
Related terms
- rolha, sobreiro
- cortíceo, córtice, córtex, cortiço