cortiça

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”). Doublet of cortíceo.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/ [kohˈt͡ʃi.sɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/ [koχˈt͡ʃi.sɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈt͡ʃi.sa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈti.sɐ/

Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧ça

Noun

cortiça f (usually uncountable, plural cortiças)

cork (bark of the cork oak)
(botany) cork (tissue between the bark and cambium of woody plants)
Synonyms: súber, felema

Derived terms

cortiço

Related terms

cortíceo, córtice, córtex

See also

rolha, sobreiro

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