Cortes

See also: cortes, cortés, cortès, and cortês

English

Etymology 1

From Spanish Cortés.

Proper noun

Cortes (plural Corteses or Cortes)

  1. A surname from Spanish, variant of Cortez

Proper noun

Cortes

  1. plural of Corte

See also

Cebuano

Alternative forms

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

  1. a surname from Spanish: Cortes, Cortés
  2. 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

  1. 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

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