cortar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- to cut
- to cut off, cut out, cut through, cut down, cut up, to nip
- to chop, chop up, chop off
- to slice, to slit
- to mow
- to slash, to hack
- to carve, to engrave
- to hang up, to terminate a telephone call
- (Chile) to stop an action
- (Chile) to shut off
- to finish a relationship
- (reflexive) to haircut
- to cut, to cut off, to slit oneself or a part of the body
Etymology
Inherited from Latin curtāre.
Origin
Latin
curtāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- curtail English
- curtailable English
- curtailer English
- curtailest English
- curtaileth English
- curtailment English
- *excurtāre Latin
- curtāre Latin
- bolsa Spanish, Castilian
- cortabolsas Spanish, Castilian
- cortafuegos Spanish, Castilian
- cortaplumas Spanish, Castilian
- cortarramas Spanish, Castilian
- cortarrollos Spanish, Castilian
- cortavientos Spanish, Castilian
- fuego Spanish, Castilian
- pluma Spanish, Castilian
- rama Spanish, Castilian
- recortar Spanish, Castilian
- rollo Spanish, Castilian
- viento Spanish, Castilian
- cortar Portuguese
- decotar Portuguese
- courtault Old French
- cruța Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cortar Old Portuguese
- cortar Asturian
- kòrta Papiamentu
- korta Kabuverdianu
- korta Guinea-Bissau Creole