cortinha

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtiɲa/

Inherited from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”).

As no modern descendant has */n/,^[1] the medieval attestations with single ⟨n⟩ may merely reflect orthographic confusion with etymology 2, which did have a genuine /ɲ~n/ variation.

• cortinna, cortiinna, cortynna
• cortina, cortyna

cortinha f (plural cortinhas)

1. plot of land for growing crops (usually enclosed)
2. good-quality land

• Galician: cortiña, cortía, curtiña
• Portuguese: cortinha

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cortinha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Universo Cantigas - "cortinha"

cortinha f (plural cortinhas)

1. Alternative form of cortina (“curtain”)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). Equivalent to corte +‎ -inha.

• Homophone: curtinha (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧nha

cortinha f (plural cortinhas)

1. (dialectal) vegetable garden
2. diminutive of corte