cortiça – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: cortiça
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	cortiça
Plural f	cortiças

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like cortiça

palestra, indumentária, metafísica, histerectomia, cumplicidade, serifa, sestra, secura, semana, estrebaria, estreiteza, savana, saroba, sapata, safena, safira, militança, sacada, sacola, sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”). Doublet of cortíceo. See: Latin Nouns 'corticea'.

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