cotta
English
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).
Noun
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.
- 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 25:
- She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.
- 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
Noun
cotta (plural cottas)
- Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”).
See also
terms etymologically unrelated
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔt.ta/
- Rhymes: -ɔtta
- Hyphenation: còt‧ta
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French cotte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Noun
cotta f (plural cotte)
Derived terms
- cotta d'arme (“surcoat”)
- cotta di maglia (“chain mail”)
Etymology 2
From cotto (“cooked”), past participle of cuocere.
Adjective
cotta
- feminine singular of cotto
Noun
cotta f (plural cotte)
Further reading
- 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
Alternative forms
- cota, cottus
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔt.ta]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔt.ta]
Noun
cotta f (genitive cottae); first declension[1][2][3]
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cotta | cottae |
| genitive | cottae | cottārum |
| dative | cottae | cottīs |
| accusative | cottam | cottās |
| ablative | cottā | cottīs |
| vocative | cotta | cottae |
Descendants
- 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
- ^ 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)