corto
Meaning
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- short (having a small distance from one end to another)
- short (having little duration)
- (colloquial) dim-witted, slow
- cut
- (Andalusia) A type of coffee made out of roughly 80% milk and 30% coffee
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cor‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkoɾto/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt. 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.
New
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)
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