Noun: cortizo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cortizo |
| Plural m | cortizos |
Sample Sentences
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mando os cortiços e as outras coussas mobiles todas a Pero eanes meu marido (I bequeath the beehives and all the other movable property to Pedro Yanes, my husband) [1342, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 415:]
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Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
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eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
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conque fazer os Formigos,
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e de mel vnha caldeyra,
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que os meus cobos e cortizos
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teñen moy boas entenas;
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porque sairon ogano
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moytos enjames d'abellas. (Twenty-five dozens of eggs
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I offer her, so that they have the necessary
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to cook the formigos;
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and of honey a pot,
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because my skeps and hives
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have very good honeycombs,
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because this year
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many swarms of bees went out) [1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:]
Nouns inflected like cortizo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in the 14th century (cortiço). From cortiza (“bark”), from Latin cortex. See: Latin Nouns '
cortex'.
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