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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkoɾt]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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 cōrtem, earlier cohortem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾt/
• Rhymes: -urt

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

1. court (of a monarch)

• cortois
• cortoisie

• Middle French: court
  • French: cour
    • Haitian Creole: lakou (with la)
      • → English: lakou
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kur
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kur
• → Middle English: court, cort, corte, cortt, courte, curt, curth
  • English: court (see there for further descendants)
  • ⇒ Fingallian: curtlagh
  • Scots: court, coort
  • → Middle Irish: cúirt
    • Irish: cúirt
    • Manx: cooyrt
    • Scottish Gaelic: cùirt

• 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 tr̃a de iudea. ⁊ de tr̃a de isrꝉ. e de ihrꝉm e de ſamaria e fazia cadaun dia grãt eſpenſa e tenia g̃nt 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

• cord

Borrowed from English cord.

cort m (plural cyrt or cyrts, diminutive cortyn or corten)

1. cord

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cort”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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