Cortes
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cortes (plural Corteses or Cortes)
Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cortes
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]- Coster, Ectors, torces, c-store, Certos, scrote, escort, corset, sector, rectos, coster, scoter, Tresco, recost
Cebuano
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Cortez — surname
Etymology
[edit]From Spanish Cortés, descriptive surname from cortés (“polite”). Compare Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with -ez (patronymic suffix).
For the municipality (formerly named Pamingwitan), multiple theories exist:
- Named after Cortés, a village in Navarre, Spain
- Named in honor of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztec Empire.
- From cortésimo
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cortés
- a surname from Spanish: Cortes, Cortés
- Cortes (a municipality of Bohol, Philippines)
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cortes.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A proper noun usage of cortes (“courts, chambers”) from Vulgar Latin cōrtēs, plural of cōrs, cōrtis, a short form via syncope of Latin cohortem (“court; enclosure”) from co- + hortus (“garden, country house, villa”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”) from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cortes f pl
- any of several legislative assemblies of Spain and Portugal; parliamentary chambers which exercise the power to craft legislation and control the actions of government as elected representatives of the public or, historically, in an advisory role to a reigning monarch
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “corte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish Cortés, descriptive surname from cortés (“polite”). Compare Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with -ez (patronymic suffix).
For the municipality (formerly named Pamingwitan), multiple theories exist:
- Named after Cortés, a village in Navarre, Spain
- Named in honor of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztec Empire.
- From cortésimo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /koɾˈtes/ [koɾˈt̪ɛs]
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: Cor‧tes
Proper noun
[edit]Cortés (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇ᜔ᜆᜒᜐ᜔)
- A municipality of Bohol, Philippines
- a surname from Spanish
Related terms
[edit]- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Spanish
- English non-lemma forms
- English proper noun forms
- Cebuano terms derived from Spanish
- Cebuano terms with IPA pronunciation
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano proper nouns
- Cebuano terms spelled with C
- Cebuano surnames
- Cebuano surnames from Spanish
- ceb:Municipalities of Bohol, Philippines
- ceb:Places in Bohol, Philippines
- ceb:Places in the Philippines
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰer- (enclose)
- Spanish terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾtes
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾtes/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish pluralia tantum
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/es
- Rhymes:Tagalog/es/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog terms spelled with C
- tl:Municipalities of Bohol, Philippines
- tl:Places in Bohol, Philippines
- tl:Places in the Philippines
- Tagalog surnames
- Tagalog surnames from Spanish