cortejar
Portuguese
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to court to attempt to win someone’s affections
- (transitive) to court to engage in behaviour leading to mating
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian corteggiare.
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
corteggiare
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cortem Latin
- corte Italian
- corteggiamento Italian
- corteggiare Italian
- corteggiatore Italian
- corteggio Italian
- courtiser French
- cortejar Spanish, Castilian