cotta
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).
Noun[edit]
cotta (plural cottas)
- A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:
- ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
- A kind of coarse woolen blanket.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
cotta (plural cottas)
- Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”)
See also[edit]
terms etymologically unrelated
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from French cotte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Noun[edit]
cotta f (plural cotte)
Derived terms[edit]
- cotta d'arme (“surcoat”)
- cotta di maglia (“chain mail”)
Etymology 2[edit]
From cotto (“cooked”), past participle of cuocere.
Adjective[edit]
cotta
Noun[edit]
cotta f (plural cotte)
Further reading[edit]
- cotta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- cotta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- còtta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkot.ta/, [ˈkɔt̪ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkot.ta/, [ˈkɔt̪ːä]
Noun[edit]
cotta f (genitive cottae); first declension[1][2][3]
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cotta | cottae |
Genitive | cottae | cottārum |
Dative | cottae | cottīs |
Accusative | cottam | cottās |
Ablative | cottā | cottīs |
Vocative | cotta | cottae |
Descendants[edit]
- Old French: cotte, cote, cot
- Iberian:
- Italian: cotta
- Old Occitan: cota
- Sardinian: cota
- → Middle Low German: kutte
- → Middle High German: kutte
- German: Kutte (“habit”)
References[edit]
- ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “cota”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 259
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cottus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 278
- ^ cotta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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