corto

corto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cortar

From Old Galician-Portuguese corto, curto, from Latin curtus.

• curto

corto (feminine corta, masculine plural cortos, feminine plural cortas)

1. short (length)

corto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cortar

From Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.to/

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• Rhymes: -orto
• Hyphenation: cór‧to

corto (feminine corta, masculine plural corti, feminine plural corte, superlative cortissimo)

1. short

   Antonym: lungo

• cortezza

corto m (plural corti)

1. abbreviation of cortometraggio

• torco

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾtu, (Brazil) -ɔʁtu
• Hyphenation: cor‧to

corto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cortar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾto/ [ˈkoɾ.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -oɾto
• Syllabification: cor‧to

Inherited from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt and short.

The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content.

corto (feminine corta, masculine plural cortos, feminine plural cortas)

1. short (having a small distance from one end to another)

   Antonym: largo

2. short (having little duration)

   Synonym: breve

   Antonym: largo

3. (colloquial) dim-witted, slow

   Synonym: cortito

4. cut

   Synonym: cortado

5. (Andalusia, Málaga) A type of coffee made out of roughly 80% milk and 30% coffee

corto m (plural cortos)

1. (Andalusia, Málaga) A type of coffee made out of roughly 80% milk and 30% coffee

Shortening of cortometraje.

corto m (plural cortos)

1. short (short film)

Shortening of cortocircuito.

corto m (plural cortos)

1. short (short circuit)

corto m (plural cortos)

1. (Chile) a glass of pure liquor

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

corto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cortar

• “corto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024