Meaning
cortar
- to cut
- to cut off, cut out, cut through, cut down, cut up, to nip
- to chop, chop up, chop off
- to slice, to slit
- to mow
- to slash, to hack
- to carve, to engrave
- to hang up, to terminate a telephone call
- (Chile, informal) to stop an action
- (Chile) to shut off
- to finish a relationship
- (reflexive) to haircut
- to cut, to cut off, to slit (oneself or a part of the body)
Concepts
Opposite of
largo
Synonyms
de poca duración
chaparo
corto circuito
vino flojo
pequeño no más
brincacharco
jolino
chinco
chunco
churunco
de pocas luces
de corta duración
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cor‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkoɾto/
Etymology
In summary
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.
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