Noun: cortiza
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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ẽna almẽdra son tres cousas: a cortiça da çima et a casca et a vianda de dentro (there are three things in an almond: the external husk, the peel, and the viand inside) [1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:]
Nouns inflected like cortiza
metafísica,
serina,
quitamerendas,
míllaras,
orixinalidade,
mobilidade,
constitucionalidade,
terza feira,
auga doce,
fotosíntese,
glutamina,
barbas de raposo,
ximnasia,
crioloxía,
microbioloxía,
filoloxía,
petanca,
ELA,
gravitación,
quintaesencia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in 1390. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”). See: Latin Nouns '
corticea'.
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