Cortes
English
Cebuano
Alternative forms
- Cortez — surname
Etymology
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
- Hyphenation: Cor‧tes
- IPA(key): /koɾˈtes/, [kɔɾ̪ˈt̪is̪]
Proper noun
Cortés
- a surname from Spanish: Cortes, Cortés
- Cortes (a municipality of Bohol, Philippines)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cortes.
Spanish
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /ˈkoɾtes/ [ˈkoɾ.t̪es]
- Rhymes: -oɾtes
- Syllabification: Cor‧tes
Proper noun
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
Further reading
- “corte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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