Noun: corto
Gender: m
Hyphenation: cor‧to
| Singular m | corto |
| Plural m | cortos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like corto
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt and short.
2. The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content. See: Latin Nouns '
curtus', Latin Nouns '
curtus'.
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