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cortina¹

Rhymes with -aɪnə

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”). Doublet of curtain.

noun cortinas

  1. A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom. /Telamonia morphologically circumscribes a homogenous group of Cortinarii. Hygrophanous pilei, the lack of viscid or gelatinous veils and well-developed cortinas characterize most species.

Cortina²

Where it comes from

From Italian.

The car was named after the Italian ski resort.

noun Cortinas

  1. A British family car from around the 1960s to 1970s

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Cortina d'Ampezzo: a resort town and municipality of the province of Belluno, Veneto region, Italy.
  2. abbreviation, ellipsis, informal Ellipsis of Cortina Olympics: The 1956 Winter Olympics, in the host city of Cortina d'Ampezzo

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"cortina." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cortina. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{cortina_2026,
  title = {cortina},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cortina},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}