cort

From Latin cōrs, cōrtem, from cohors, cohortem. Compare Occitan cort, French court. Doublet of cohort, a borrowing.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkort/
• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

cort f (plural corts)

1. pen, stable, sty (enclosure for livestock)
2. (by extension) sty (dirty place)
3. court (residence of a sovereign)
4. court (body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign)
5. court, courthouse (place where justice is administered)

   Synonym: tribunal

6. court (tribunal established for the administration of justice)

   Synonym: tribunal

• cortesà

• “cort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin curtus.

cort

1. short

cort

1. Alternative form of court

From Latin cōrs, cōrtem, from Latin cohors, cohortem.

• IPA^(key): /kurt/
• Rhymes: -urt

cort f (oblique plural corz or cortz, nominative singular cort, nominative plural corz or cortz)

1. court (of a monarch)

• cortois
• cortoisie

• French: cour
• → Middle English: court, cort, corte, cortt, courte, curt, curth
  • English: court (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: court, coort

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾt/

cort f (plural cortes)

1. Apocopic form of corte; court (retinue of a monarch)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 51v.

     […] e fue reẏ de tŕa de iudea. ¬ de tŕa de isrl´. e de ihrl´m e de ſamaria e fazia cadaun dia grát eſpenſa e tenia ǵnt cort.

     […] And he was king of the land of Judah and of the land of Israel, and of Jerusalem and of Samaria. And every day he incurred great expense and had a numerous court.

Borrowed from Greek κόρτη (kórti), ultimately from Latin cors or cohors. Doublet of the inherited curte, as well as the later borrowing cohortă.

cort n (plural corturi)

1. tent