horta

From Latin hortus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔr.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔɾ.ta]

horta f (plural hortes)

1. orchard, market garden, vegetable garden

• hort

• “horta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “horta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “horta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “horta”, 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

From Old Galician-Portuguese orta, from orto, from Latin hortus (“garden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾta̝/

horta f (plural hortas)

1. kitchen garden, vegetable garden

   Synonyms: cortiña, eixido, horto, quintal

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “orta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “horta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “horta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “horta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “horta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Homophone: Horta

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔʁtɐ, (Portugal) -ɔɾtɐ

From Old Galician-Portuguese orta, from orto, from Latin hortus (“garden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).

horta f (plural hortas)

1. kitchen garden (garden for growing fruit, vegetables and/or herbs)

   Synonyms: horto, quintal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

horta

1. inflection of hortar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “horta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “horta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025